Bio

Asan Hoyte has spent the last nine years teaching at various educational levels in Barbados and Colombia. From 2013 to 2014, he was an English Language Assistant at the Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander in Colombia. This stint in Colombia was followed by three years teaching Spanish at primary and secondary schools in Barbados. In 2019, Mr. Hoyte completed the MA in Theoretical & Experimental linguistics at UPV/EHU, Spain and subsequently joined the Academic Literacies programme at Cave Hill. Currently, he teaches sections of Exposition for Academic Purposes and Professional Writing and the Research Methods course in the Linguistics programme.

Qualifications

MA, Theoretical & Experimental Linguistics, Universidad del Pais Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea, 2019

BA, Spanish with Linguistics, The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, 2013

Certificate, Advanced Spanish Language and Culture (Level B2), Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, 2012

Research Areas

Inquiry-based writing
Communities of practice and academic writing
Sociolinguistics
Dialectology
Bajan Dialect
Language attitudes

Teaching Areas

FOUN1006 Exposition for Academic Purposes

FOUN1008 Introduction to Professional Writing

LING2099 Research Methods in Linguistics

Keywords

Academic Literacies, Academic writing, Sociolinguistics, Bajan