Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Professor Valerie YOUSSEF
Professor of Linguistics (retired)
Office
Room 321, 3rd Floor West, School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Education
The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Phone: (868) 662-2002, c/o Ext. 82036
E-mail: Valerie.Youssef@sta.uwi.edu
See an interview with Prof Youssef in DMLL Research Notes Vol 2 (August 2015).
Education
• PhD Linguistics, UWI
• MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), American University in Cairo
• BA History, Reading University
Research Interests
• Applied Discourse Analysis
• Descriptive Linguistics: Caribbean Language Varieties
• Language Acquisition and Learning
• Language Education
• Sociolinguistics
Courses
Undergraduate
- LING 2101 Language Acquisition
- LING 2302 Sociolinguistics
- LING 2306 Approaches to Discourse Analysis
- GEND 3001 Gender, Trauma and Violence in Discourse
Postgraduate
- LING 5101 Language Acquisition and Learning: Theory and Practice
- LING 5103 Curriculum Design and Resources in TESOL
- LING 6302 Sociolinguistics of West Indian Society and Language
- LING 6701 Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
Selected Publications
• Youssef, Valerie. Finding Self in the Transition from East to West: Indo-Trinidadian Perspectives. Bindi: The Multifacted Lives of Indo-Caribbean Women. Ed. Rosanne Kanhai. Kingston: The University of the West Indies Press, 2012.
• Youssef, Valerie. Sociolinguistics of the Caribbean. In Sociolinguistics Around the World: A Handbook. Ed. Martin Ball. New York: Routledge, 2010. pp. 52-64.
• Youssef, Valerie. Varilingualism: A term for 21st century language acquisition contexts. Education et Sociétés Plurilingues 2010: 65-76.
• Morgan, Paula and Valerie Youssef. Writing Rage: Unmasking Violence through Caribbean Discourse. Kingston: UWI Press, 2007. (UWI Press Award for Outstanding Interdisicplinary Book 2008)
• Youssef, Valerie and Winford James. The Languages of Tobago: Genesis, Structure and Perspectives. St. Augustine: UWI School of Continuing Studies/Open Campus, 2002.
See more articles in our Linguistics Section's page of refereed articles.
