Clive Forrester, PhD

Welcome to my page where I share reflections, resources, and my teaching philosophy. Feel free to browse the various pages and leave a comment if you're so inclined.

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I've been teaching academic writing and linguistics at the undergraduate level for roughly 12 years now, at all levels of the undergraduate program, and at five different institutions throughout my career. I got my start in teaching at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona where I served as a writing coach at the Writing Centre in the faculty of humanities. My duties generally involved assisting students who needed last-minute mechanical revisions to their essays, but on occasion working with students who were referred to the Writing Centre over a prolonged period. When I started the Ph.D. program in applied linguistics, I transitioned into lecturing courses in sociolinguistics while at UWI. I also lectured courses in communication at the neighboring University of Technology (UTech) Jamaica during this time.

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I spent three years (2005-2008) lecturing at UWI, Mona, and UTech, Jamaica before moving to Canada to take up a visiting professor appointment in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University. I developed and taught three courses on Jamaican Creole - introducing students to the language and culture of Jamaica through a foreign language teaching model. What was meant to be a one-year engagement turned into a tenure of eight years which ended in 2016 with my full-time appointment at the University of Waterloo.

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Since August 2016 I've been in the Department of English Language & Literature at the University of Waterloo where I teach courses in academic and technical writing, as well as introductory linguistics.