Sarah Joseph

Sarah Merlyn Joseph

Positions

Sessional Instructor & Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Calgary

French Centre Monitor

University of Calgary

Graduate Assistant (Research)

University of Calgary

Contact information

Background

Credentials

DELF examiner, Alliance Française de Madras, 2023

Educational Background

Master of Arts French, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India, 2021

Bachelor of Arts French Literaure, Loyola College, Chennai, India, 2019

Biography

Born and raised in the coastal city of Chennai, in India, Sarah speaks Tamil, English, French and basic German. She was fascinated by the structure and musicality of French in high school and pursued higher studies in the language. She holds a bachelor’s (B.A) and a master’s degree (M.A) in French. Her experience as a Teacher in French in India to students from different linguistic backgrounds has motivated her to study further the role of one’s mother tongue in learning a foreign language. 

Her research interests include Second Language Acquisition, General Linguistics and Discourse Analysis. She is a doctoral student at the University of Calgary in Applied Linguistics in French. In her free time, she lets her creativity come to life - she makes crafts, does calligraphy and crochet, she also enjoys playing the piano.

Awards

  • Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship , 2024