Dr. Daidrah Telfer
Lecturer
Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies
– School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- daidrah.smith@utech.edu.jm
- 8769271680-8
- ext. 3734
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Qualifications
- PhD, Linguistics -2019
- B.A. Linguistics – 2004
Specialisation / Teaching Area
- Fundamentals of Communication
- Advanced Communication
- Business Communication
- Oral Communication
- Academic Writing I & II
- Academic Literacy for Undergraduates
- Essentials of Professional Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Reading and Writing
- Language Development
Research Interests
- Language Description
- Documentation and revitalization
- Developing skills in Academic Literacies
- Business Communication
Projects:
- Intercultural Bilingual Eduction Project
- Guyanese Languages Unit, University of Guyana
- 2023 Research grant received from the School of Graduate Studies, Research & Entrepreneurship: UTech, Ja. to investigate “Reading habits of adult Jamaicans: Possible impact on political literacy, health and psychological well-being”. Role: Lead Investigator
- 2020 Research grant received from the School of Graduate Studies, Research & Entrepreneurship: UTech, Ja. to design and develop the Virtual Self-Access Learning Centre (VSALC). Role: Lead Investigator
- 2013 Research grant received from the School of Graduate Studies, Research & Entrepreneurship: UTech, Ja. to investigate candidates’ performance on the UTech, Jamaica Proficiency Test in English, Role: Lead Investigator
Professional Membership / Association
- Society for Caribbean Linguistics
- Guyana Languages Unit
Community Service & Outreach Activities
Publications
ORCID: 0009-0003-3868-4217
- Stewart-McKoy, M., & Telfer, D. (In Press). Do we really know Jack? Academic staff eCompetence profiles: Pre-pandemic insights for post-pandemic teaching and learning. [Manuscript submitted to The Journal of Arts, Science and Technology for publication].
- Stewart-McKoy, M., Telfer, D., Alao, M. & Burris-Melville, T. (2022). “eTailored to fit”: The development of a virtual self-access learning centre (VSALC) to support learners at a Jamaican university. The UWI Quality Education Forum 26 pp 217 – 247.
- Telfer, D., Stewart-McKoy, M., Burris-Melville, T., & Alao, M. (2022). “Our voices matter”: The learner profile of UTech, Jamaica students & implications for a virtual self-access learning centre. Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 13(1), 77-107. https://doi.org/10.37237/130105
- Smith, D. & Stewart-McKoy, M. (2019). Balancing composition and grammar in the UTech Jamaica classroom. In V. Milson-Whyte, R. Oenbring & B. Jaquette (Eds.) Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean. Brackenberry, SC: Parlor Press, pp 178 – 201.
- Smith, D. & Stewart-McKoy, M. (2017). “Under examination”: An analysis of students’ writing errors at UTech, Ja and implications for the teaching of English. The Journal of Arts, Science and Technology, 10, 156 – 178.
- Smith, D., Stewart-McKoy, M. Henry, A. & Hamilton, G. (2015). Performance on the Proficiency Test in English at the University of Technology, Jamaica: A University-wide problem and implications for Teaching and Learning. The Journal of Arts, Science and Technology, 8 (15), 60 – 80.
