PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Telfer, D., Stewart-McKoy, M., Burris-Melville, T., & Alao, M. (2022). “Our voices matter”: The learner profile of UTech, Jamaica students and implications for a virtual self-access learning centre. Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 13(1), 77–107. https://doi.org/10.37237/130105

Stewart-McKoy, M. (2019). An evaluation of the teaching of Spanish in selected secondary schools in Jamaica. Caribbean Journal of Education 41 (2) pp 32 – 54.

Smith, D. & Stewart-McKoy, M. (2019).  Balancing composition and grammar in the UTech Jamaica classroom. In V. Mison-Whyte, R. Oenbring & B. Jaquette (Eds.) Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean.  Brackenberry, SC: Parlor Press, pp 178 – 201

Stewart-McKoy, M. & McIntosh, A. (2019). Can We Play Here, Should We? Developing a Framework of Gamification in Higher Education at UTech, Jamaica. The Journal of Arts, Science and Technology, 12 (1), 1 – 22.

Smith, D and 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.

Stewart-McKoy, M. and Anderson Chung, S. (2016).  “Back in the game”: Using gamification as an engagement tool with Spanish Language learners at UTech, Jamaica. Journal of Art, Science and Technology. Vol 9, pp 124 -144.

Smith, D., Stewart-McKoy, M., Henry, A. and 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. Journal of Art, Science and Technology. Vol 8, pp 60 -80.

Stewart-McKoy, M. (2014). “Digitize me”: Generating e-learning profiles for media and communication students in a Jamaican tertiary-level institution. Journal of Educators Online. 11(1). http://www.thejeo.com/Archives/Volume11Number1/StewartMcKoy.pdf 

Stewart-McKoy, M. (2013). “Beautifying the Beast”: Customising online instruction in a writing course for Jamaican tertiary-level students. Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 4(3), 157-174. http://sisaljournal.org/archives/sep13/stewart-mckoy/

Stewart, M. (2005). “”The games people play”. Utilizing Power Point games in language delivery. Caribbean Journal of Education. 27(2), 163 – 186.

POSTER, COLLOQUIA & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Stewart-McKoy, M. & Smith, D. (2016).  “What’s your profile?”: The role of eCompetence and learner profiles in the development of a virtual self-access centre.  Conference Presentation.  The Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies’  2nd International Conference.  UTech, Jamaica.  May 26 – 27, 2016.

Stewart-McKoy, M. (2016).  “In plain site”: Towards standardising web-based components of FL courses across multiple sites.  Poster Presentation.  Research, Technology and Innovation Day.  UTech, Jamaica.  March 10, 2016.

Stewart-McKoy, M. (2014).  “Playing for Keeps”: Using gamification to engage students.  Poster Presentation.  Research, Technology and Innovation Day.  UTech, Jamaica.  March 20, 2014.

Stewart-McKoy, M. (2014). “Writer’s Block”: Strategies for addressing students’ writing challenges. Poster Presentation.  Research, Technology and Innovation Day.  UTech, Jamaica.  March 20, 2014.

Stewart-McKoy, M. (2014). “Full hundred”: Using gamification principles and project-based learning to engage students.  School of Humanities and Social Sciences Annual Colloquium.  January, 2014

Smith, D. & Stewart-McKoy, M. (2014). ““Under examination”: An analysis of students’ writing errors in the proficiency test in English.  School of Humanities and Social Sciences Annual Colloquium.  January, 2014

Stewart-McKoy, M. (2012).  “DULL? (Digitising and unbabeling Language Learning) – The case of Jamaica”. Northern Caribbean University 2nd International Language Conference. April 3 – 4, 2012.

Stewart-McKoy, M. (2010). “Gimme de, gimme de, gimme de go-go wine”: Using a selection of Jamaican-specific contexts to build intercultural bridges among Basic Spanish students at UTech, Jamaica.  Northern Caribbean University Inaugural International Language Conference.  March 3, 2010.

Stewart-McKoy, M. (2009).  Digitising Babel: Design and Implementation of an online self-access  language centre for the “digital native” at UTech, Jamaica.  Caribbean Studies Association Conference. June 1 – 5, 2009

Stewart, M. (2008).  “You, We, Dem and the MICELLE Project: Design and Implementation among a group of Basic Spanish students.”   University of the West Indies, Mona. Poster Presentation 2008

Stewart, M.  (2004).  The leaning tower of Babel: The state of foreign languages in Jamaican schools. School of Education, UWI Mona Graduate Studies Research Symposium, 2004.