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Showcasing Research News from the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the St Augustine Campus The University of the West Indies Faculty of Humanities and Education Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics RESEARCH NOTES ISSN 2519-5123 Showcasing Research News from the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the St Augustine Campus Issue 5 September 2018 Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics Contents 1 Words from the Head Words from the Head 2 Six Years of Leadership 5 10th Anniversary of the CITB 6 Staff Publications 12 Cracks in the Edifice th 13 36 West Indian Literature Conference s the academic year supervision in a wealth 15 Bridging Wor(l)ds Conference 2017-2018 comes to of research areas which 18 22nd Biennial Conference of the SCL 23 Recent PhD Graduates Aan end, I am delighted include topics on the 24 Current MPhil Candidates that we have a lot of good theoretical and practical 25 Current MA Candidates news to report in this 5th edition aspects of language 26 Visiting Lecturers of DMLL Research Notes in learning and teaching, first 28 International Creole Day 2017 the Department of Modern and subsequent foreign 29 Research Tips Languages and Linguistics language learning, the 30 Undergraduate Research (DMLL), including many and impact of study abroad 35 Foreign Language Theatre Festival varied staff publications, the completion of on language learning, relations between 37 World Book and Copyright day 2018 higher research degrees, the tenth anniversary language and culture from a teaching and 38 Linguistics Open & Research Day 2018 39 Tribute to Randy Hezekiah of the Caribbean Interpreting and Translation learning perspective, issues on identity and Bureau (CITB), and so much more. culture, language documentation and DMLL Vision The UWI Strategic Plan 2017-2022 rests digital development of heritage languages in The Department of Modern Languages and upon the three primary pillars of Access, Trinidad and Tobago. Linguistics of The University of the West Indies, Agility and Alignment; all seeking to afford Overall, our research with impact sees St Augustine is a nationally and regionally stakeholders “greater and more affordable our DMLL staff consistently making more renowned department engaged in teaching and research in academic writing, linguistics, access, efficient and effective alignment with inroads in the national community through modern languages and their literatures. We society and economy, and enhanced agility in the sharing of the value of foreign languages, seek to develop in students the ability to analyse pursuit of opportunities” (p. 3). To meet these and their literatures, French-lexicon Creole and interrogate languages and literatures needs, the DMLL’s transformation includes (Patois), Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language, for a multiplicity of purposes while facilitating tightening some sections while expanding and English Language and Linguistics. And cognitive and affective student learning that others and diversifying programming. We while on the topic of impact, in the past may be applied nationally, regionally and support the UWI’s thrust in advancing the year, the DMLL lost one of our dear former internationally. institution’s quality. To this end, the coming colleagues; Mr Randolph Hezekiah, who Research Notes is published by the Department academic year will see the following disciplines passed away on Wednesday 25 October of Modern Languages and Linguistics. in the DMLL come under Quality Assurance 2017. A former Lecturer in French Literature, Editorial Office reviews: the English Language Foundation Randy left an indelible impression on all of his Department of Modern Languages and Unit and French; the culmination of a students and on many members of staff. We Linguistics lengthy process which will have included the were all tremendously saddened by his loss. The University of the West Indies compilation of Self Assessment reports over this May he continue to rest in peace. St Augustine Campus past academic year. Trinidad & Tobago Finally, on a personal note, and as I step Phone: +1-868-662-2002 Through DMLL Research Notes, our down from the Headship of the DMLL in July Ext. 83280 / 83027 / 84235 intention is to draw attention to our professors 2018 at the conclusion of my second three- Fax: +1-868-663-5059 and other staff by highlighting not only their year term, I am certainly looking forward to Email: [email protected] involvement in new programmes and courses, returning to life as a full-time Senior Lecturer Website: http://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/dmll/index.asp undergraduate and postgraduate supervision, in Spanish. I’m grateful that I’ll have plenty of Advisory Committee but also the standout research being carried time to further reflect on the varied lessons Dr Nicole Roberts - Editor out in diverse areas and research clusters of the past six years, and to readily offer Dr Jo-Anne Ferreira including: foreign language teaching and my assistance to the incoming Head in Dr Sandra Evans Rómulo Guédez-Fernández learning, Caribbean sign languages and transitioning toward making the DMLL a more Kellon Sankar deaf communities, Patois (French Creole) inclusive community, making our presence Janique Dennis revitalisation in Trinidad and the Caribbean, even greater in the national community and Laura López Calonge language documentation, Hispanic and adding to our already diverse programming. Garvin Parsons Francophone literatures and film; academic Stay tuned! Adonis Díaz Fernández writing, and English language and literacy. Photography: Karisse Jackman In addition, our research on literature centres Dr Nicole Roberts on Hispanic / Francophone Caribbean Cover page: A section of the first mural erected on Senior Lecturer & Head of Department the St Augustine main campus titled “Perseverance” literary connections, trauma in Caribbean (acrylic on plywood) by artist and UWI graduate, literature, cultural transgression, as well as Jason Reid autobiographical writing. In the DMLL, we offer Photo: The UWI-Marketing & Communications Office excellent undergraduate and postgraduate ISSN 2519-5123 1— Research Notes - Issue 5 Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics Six Years of Leadership: Impacting the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics through Afro-Hispanic Caribbean Consciousness s one of the departments in the Faculty of develop their capacities for communication, another way Humanities and Education, the Department of of being ‘in charge’ of how fellow colleagues execute their AModern Languages and Linguistics (DMLL) at the duties in the delivery of their programmes, and, significantly, St Augustine campus aims at impacting the communities another way of being guided by her/his own growth and within Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean by development as a senior academic, a senior ‘thinker’ whose offering a range of courses in English, French, Linguistics, training in a specific field in the Humanities enables her/ Portuguese, and Spanish in relation to structure, function, him to demonstrate a profound sensitivity to the very and formation and evolution. But the DMLL does more nuanced and complex phenomenon we call our humanity. than just this; it is a department in which the scientific study of language happens in tandem with the acquisition of After six years as the first HoD of the DMLL, Dr Nicole skills in listening, reading, writing, and speaking, alongside Roberts reflected with me on her headship, on her the study of literature and culture. In the Humanities at academic research and writing, and on how the headship the UWI, therefore, the DMLL logically complements the impacted her academic labour (and vice versa). In all of her Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication reflections, and with a deep sense of satisfaction in having Studies (LCCS) in advancing training in how communication grown as an academic by the opportunity to be head happens between individuals, among larger communities administrator for the DMLL for two successive three-year of individuals, and within literary texts, whether drama, cycles, there emerged a certain passion to get back more fiction or poetry. To be Head of Department (HoD) is heavily into the domain of academic research and writing. therefore a very important task as the individual vested with this responsibility is not only expected to oversee and For Roberts, the effective administration of the manage the delivery and execution of DMLL curricula, but Department is of utmost importance for determining the is also, perhaps more strategically, expected to demonstrate best possible impact on students and the best chances at a certain level of expertise derived not quite from prior providing students with a more consistently positive training in administration, but rather from her/his academic faculty experience. But because this administrative background and intellectual interests. In other words, being responsibility requires (as it should) an incredible amount the HoD is another way of being ‘in charge’ of how students of commitment and dedication to looking after and out Issue 5 - Research Notes —2 Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics for other colleagues, students and oneself as Head, the person studying), this approach often does not succeed in university responsibility of academic research and writing exciting students of literature to appreciate the imaginative can be severely and negatively impacted if one does not work as an extension of society, and thus does not quite quite get into a posture that makes the administrative work to attract students to literature as an area
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