Professional Training 

OCOD Senior Reading summer workshop  (1986-1989)

                  (Teaching reading in English to children 11-13 years)

Centre Audio-Visuel de Langues Modernes (CAVILAM, Vichy) and Université de Clermont-Ferrand (1988-1989)

                  DUEEF: Diploma for Foreign Teachers of French

          Centre International d’Etudes Pedagogique (CIEP), Paris (1995-1996)

                 Certificate : Trainer of Trainers: FLE (French Foreign Language)

Teaching Experience

    Tutor

    French                1998-2000 Distance ed for teachers of French administered jointly by the Universities of the West Indies, 
                               Barbados and Martinique (French Language and African Literature in French).

    French                2000 January – May for teachers of French in the Secondary Teachers’ Training Programme, 
                   St Vincent Teachers’ Training College.

    French                1996-2000 Organizer and facilitator of workshops for teachers of French in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

    Lecturer/French  1999-2000 A’Level College, St Vincent

     English                1985-1988; 1997-1998 High Schools, St Vincent

     English                1990-1991 Adult education, Ministry of Education, St Vincent and the Grenadines

     French                1985-1988; 1989-1999 High Schools, St Vincent

                   1994-1999    Alliance Française, St Vincent

Language teaching workshops facilitated

        2007                    La pédagogie de la chanson

        2007                    First language interference in the acquisition of Standard English

        2006                    Elaboration of a writing system for St Vincent and the Grenadines creole

        1999                    Dramatisation et facilitation de l’élocution / Dramatisation and developing fluency of speech

        1998                    L’approche communicative – la communication dans la classe de langue / Communication in the language class

        1998                    Phonétique acoustique et perceptive / Acoustic and perceptive phonetics

        1997                    Les temps du passé en français – une démarche créative / The French 'past tenses' - a creative approach

        1997                    L’évaluation en FLE – Auto-évaluation de l’apprenant / Evaluation - Learner Self-Evaluation