Educational
Background and Qualifications
1948-1951
St. Andrew's College, Oyo
1957-1960 University
College, Ibadan, Nigeria (In special relationship with the University
of London)
1959
University of London, Summer School
B.A. (Honours) English, 2.1, London, United Kingdom, 1960.
1960-1963
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Diploma in General Linguistics, Edinburgh, 1961
Ph.D. Edinburgh, l963
Thesis: A Study of Structures and Classes in the Grammar of
Modern Yoruba (270pp.
mimeographed).
Honours, Scholarships, and Fellowships
1957-1960
Western Nigeria Government (Regulation 18) Scholarship
1957-1958
English Departmental Prize for the session
1959 University of Ibadan Fellowship for the
Summer School Literature at the University of
London, July-August
1960-1963 University of Ibadan Postgraduate
Scholarship tenable at the University of Edinburgh
1970-1971
Ford Foundation Study and Travel Award for Study Leave in the
U.S.A.
1977 Ford
Foundation Study and Travel Award for the Linguistic Institute,
Honolulu, Hawaii
1979-1980 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German
Research Council) Fellowship for
Visiting
Professorship at Hamburg University, Germany
1984
Honorary Membership, Linguistic Society of America
1987-1988
Clare Hall, Cambridge University Foundation Fellowship
1987-1988
British Council Fellowship
1990
Life
Membership, Clare Hall, Cambridge University
1990 Nigerian National Order of Merit (Nigeria's highest award
for intellectual and
academic achievement).
1996
Fellow of St. Andrew's College, Oyo
1998 Fellow and Foundation President, Nigerian Academy
of Letters
2001
Distinguished Service Award, African Language Teachers
Association,
U.S.A.
2001
Distinguished Alumnus Merit Award, Faculty of Arts,
University
of Ibadan.
Teaching Experience
1952-1957
Teaching in primary and secondary schools and a Teacher
Training College
1963-1966
Lecturer, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1966-1968
Senior Lecturer, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1968-1990
Professor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1978 Visiting Professor, Linguistic
Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, (Summer)
1979-1980
Visiting Professor, Hamburg University, West Germany
1987-1988
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, United
Kingdom
Guest Lecturer at the Universities of Indiana (Bloomington), Stanford,
Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Michigan (Ann Arbor), Michigan State
(East Lansing), Northwestern (Evanston), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Florida, Wisconsin, Marburg, Bayreuth, Bergen (Norway), London
(University College), Cambridge, Edinburgh, the Frobenius Institute
(Frankfurt), and Institut National des Langues Orientales (Paris),
Several Universities in South Africa (Pretoria, UNISA, North, Venda,
Vista (Soweto), Stellenbosch, Cape Town, and Port Elizabeth),Vienna
(Austria).
1993-1994
George A. Miller Visiting Professor, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign.
1994 Professor Emeritus, University of Ibadan,
Nigeria.
1994-1995 Visiting
Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
1997-1999 Visiting Professor, University of
Leipzig, Germany (Sponsored by DAAD).
Administrative Experience
1966-1969
Sub-Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan
1967-1978
Membership on various committees of Senate and
1986-1990
Council
1968-1969
Warden, Postgraduate Hall
1969-1975
Head, Department of Linguistics and African
Languages, University of Ibadan
1977-81 - ditto -
1971-1973
Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan
1971-1972
Chairman, Jos Campus Committee
1976-1978
Master, Postgraduate Hall
1986-1987
Chairman, Senate Committee on the General Studies
Programme
1988-90 - ditto
-
1988-1990
Chairman, Senate Publications Committee
Research Interests
A. Language and Linguistics: Research and
publications have ranged from descriptive studies mainly of Yoruba to
applied linguistic research involving orthographies, language policy
and planning, and aspects of the development and the teaching of
English as a second language in Nigeria.
B. Language and Education: The focus of the research has
been on the use of African languages as media of instruction and as
subject matter in the curriculum. Problems examined have
included assessment of different practices, the problem of media
transition, and effective strategies to ensure viable results in
mother tongue education.
C. Curriculum Development: Work in this area has been
geared to developing language materials. In particular,
much effort has been put into developing technical terminology in some
Nigerian languages for use in teaching elementary mathematics,
and the basic sciences. Similar work has been done at a higher
level in Yoruba for teaching language, literature and methodology (See
"Yoruba Metalanguage").
D. Adult Literacy: The main focus in this area has been
on the important role of language: how to design viable language
materials for adult literacy, particularly bearing in mind the need
for a flexible approach that makes it possible for a wide range of
languages, including minority languages, to be used in adult
literacy.
E. Literature
and Culture: Aspects of the oral and written literature of
the Yoruba have been
studied in the total context of the culture. In particular, the
proverbs and folktales have been analyzed and the novels of one of the
pioneer writers have been exhaustively studied. Against the
impact of Western culture and technology, the way the media are coping
with the expression of foreign concepts has also been given some
attention.
Consultancies
A. Assignments
Within Nigeria:
1966-1969 Member, Western Nigeria
Ministry of Education Committee on Yoruba Orthography
1968-1979
Member and later Chairman, National Language Centre Working
Committee
Consultant Linguist to the National Language Centre on the Technical
Terminology Project, the new "Wazobia" Project, and the
Orthography Project.
External Examiner to a number of universities, including the
University of Lagos, (Yoruba), the University of Ife (Linguistics,
Yoruba, English Language), the University of Ilorin (Linguistics,
Yoruba Language), Ogun State University and Ondo State University
(Yoruba).
1977-1979
Member of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
representing the
University of Ibadan
1980-87 - ditto -
1974-1976 Moderator, West
African Examination Committee (W.A.E.C.) "A"-Level in
Yoruba
1978-1979
Chief Moderator, JAMB English Language Paper
Member W.A.E.C. International Panel on English Language and
the Nigerian
Languages National Working Party
1980-87 - ditto -
1987 Member, Presidential Committee on the
Implementation of the Recommendations of the Seminar on the National
Question in Nigeria, January-June
1988-1990
President, Scholarly Publishers Association of Nigeria
1991 Chairman, Working
Committee for the National Institute for Nigerian Languages
1999-2003 Member of
Governing Council, St. Andrew's College of Education,
Oyo.
B. International
Assignments:
1. Consultant
to the Ford Foundation on:
1966
- Survey of English Language Teaching in
Nigeria
1968
- English Language Needs for Junior Members of
the School of Law and
Administration in Kinshasa, Zaire
1972 - Assessment of the activities of the Center of
applied Linguistics in Dakar (CLAD) Senegal
1973 - Assessment of the activities and needs of the
Language Association of Eastern Africa,
Nairobi
2. Expert at
the following UNESCO Conferences
1971 -
Roundtable Meeting of Experts on the Role of Linguistics and
Sociolinguistics in Language Education and
Policy, Paris, July
1974 - Meeting of Specialists
in Anthropology and Language Science, Paris, May
1975 - Meeting of Experts on
Diversification of Methods and Techniques for Teaching a Second
Language, Paris, September
1977 - Meeting of Experts on Language Teaching in
a Bi- or Plurilingual and Multi-cultural Environment, Paris,
December
1978 - Meeting of Experts on the Transcription
and Harmonization of African
Languages, Niamey, July
1979 - Meeting of Experts on the Use of
Regional and Sub-regional African Languages as media of Culture and
Communication within the Continent, Bamako, June
1983 -
Multidisciplinary Symposium on the Evolution of Content and
Methods of Language Teaching in Developing Countries and the
Production of Teaching Materials suited to National Needs and
Bilingual or Plurilingual Education, Paris, April
l985 - International Seminar Concerning Current
Problems of Linguistic Research in Africa and Caribbean countries,
Paris, September
1985
- African Languages Horizon 2000: Development
Workshop on African
Linguistics in the University, UNESCO Regional Office for Education in
Africa, Dakar, December
1986 - UNESCO Workshop on
Harmonization of Terminology in African Languages, in Zomba, Malawi,
December
1992 - Roundtable on Language Policy, Literacy
and Culture, 43rd International Conference on Education, Geneva,
September.
1993 - International Consultation on New Perspectives
for Unesco's Program: The Intangible Cultural Heritage, Unesco, Paris,
June
1996 -
Pan-African Seminar on the Problems and Prospects of the Use
of African Languages in Education, Accra (Ghana), August
2002- Conference on
Education in Multilingual Contexts, Paris, September.
3. Expert at other conferences
1995 - British Council and USIS
West African English Language Conference, Mbour, Senegal,
December.
1996 - Inaugural Meeting
of the Ghana English Studies Association, Winneba, June.
1997- 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics, Leipzig,
July-August.
1998 - Language Summit of the Democratic Party of
South Africa, Johannesburg, March.
1999
- Conference on Multilingual Cities and Towns in
South Africa -
Challenges and Prospects. Pretoria, October.
2000 - International Conference on Linguistics in
Southern Africa, Cape Town, January.
- Kopano (Southern African Regional Exchange) Conference on Arts,
Culture and Heritage. Dikhololo, July.
2003 - National Consultative Conference on Language,
Kopanong Conference Centre, Benoni,
June
- Workshop on Intellectualization of African
Languages, Cape Town,
July.
4. External Examining in Linguistics
at the Universities of Ghana, Legon; Sierra Leone (Fourah Bay College
and Njala University College); Yaounde (Cameroon), and
Zimbabwe.
5. Currently on the Executive
Committee of the Permanent International Committee of Linguists
(CIPL).
6. 1990 Presenter and Moderator of
the Thematic Roundtable on Language Policy in Preschool, Primary
School and Adult Literacy Programs at the World Conference on
Education for All (WCEFA), Jomtien, Thailand, March.
7. 1991-1996
Director, Languages in Contact and Conflict in Africa
(LiCCA)
International Project (One of the four Directors of this
Project).
8. 2000 St. Andrew's
College Old Boys' Association (SACOBA) Millenium Lecture, University
of Ibadan, November.
Membership of Editorial Boards
Journal of African Languages
ODU:
A Journal of West African Studies
Indian Journal of Linguistics
African Languages
Journal of African Languages & Linguistics
Education and Development (Editor-in-Chief 1985-1987)
Nsukka Journal of Linguistics & African Languages
Linguistique Africaine
Ife Studies in English Language
Journal of English as a Second Language
IDEAL - Issues and Developments in English Applied
Linguistics
Ilorin Journal of Language and Literature
World Englishes: Journal of English as an International and
Intranational Language
(Consulting Editor since 1993)
South African Journal of African Languages
Participation in International Conferences
Attended several international conferences and presented papers.
These include the West African Language Congress, the International
Conference on Second Language Problems, the African Linguistics
Conference, the Singapore Regional Language Center Seminar, the
Language and Pragmatics Conference, the Nigeria Educational Research
Council Conference, World Conference on African Linguistics, and the
International Congress of Linguistics.
Membership of Learned Societies
West
African Linguistic Society
Linguistic Society of America
Philosophical Society of Great Britain
Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria
Nigeria English Studies Association
Linguistic Association of Nigeria
International Association of World Englishes
Nigerian Delegate to the General Assembly of CIPL (Permanent
International Committee of Linguists).
Nigerian Academy of Letters
Offices held:
1965-1967 Honorary Secretary, Philosophical
Society, University of Ibadan
1965-1972
Secretary-Treasurer, West African Linguistic Society
1976-1982
President, West African Linguistic Society
1977- date
Member of the Executive of CIPL (Permanent
International
Committee of Linguists)
1981-1986
President, Yoruba Studies Association
1982-date
President, Interim Committee of the Association of
University
Teachers of African Languages
1991-1998 Protem President, Nigerian Academy of
Letters
1998-2000 Foundation President, Nigerian Academy
of Letters
1999-2000 Vice-President and President-elect, International
Association of World Englishes
2000
-2002 President,
International Association of World Englishes
2003 -date 2nd Vice-President,
Permanent International Committee of Linguists
(CIPL)
Research and
Publications
A. Books and Monographs
1. Yoruba
Orthography, Ibadan University Press, l965.
2. A Grammar of Yoruba, (West
African Language Monographs No. 5), Cambridge University Press,
1966.
3. English Language
Teaching in Nigeria, (with Robert Jacobs and others). Edited
by Robert Jacobs, Ford Foundation, Lagos, l966.
4. Report
of the Yoruba Orthography Committee (ed.) Government Printer,
Ibadan, l969.
5. A Short
Yoruba Grammar, Heinemann, l967.
6. The Yoruba
Verb Phrase (ed.), Ibadan University Press, l972.
7. Linguistics in a Developing Country (An
Inaugural Lecture delivered at the University of Ibadan on October 27,
l972), Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, l973.
8. The Novels
of D.O. Fagunwa, Ethiope Publishing Corporation, Benin, l974.
9. Mother Tongue
Education: The West African Experience (ed.) Hodder and Stoughton,
London. The UNESCO Press, Paris, l976.
10. Language in Education in
Nigeria (ed.) Vols. I & II, National Language Center, Lagos,
l977, l978
11. Orthographies of
Nigerian Languages ,Manual 1 (Efik, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba) (ed.),
National Language Center, Lagos, l981.
12. Yoruba
Metalanguage, (Ede-Iperi Yoruba), An English-Yoruba Glossary of
Technical Terms in Language, Literature and Methodology (ed.) Nigeria
Educational Research Council, Lagos, l984.
13. Yoruba: A Language
in Transition, J.F. Odunjo Memorial Lectures Series No. 1, J.F.
Odunjo Memorial Lecture, Lagos, l986.
14. A Guide to Terminology
for African Language Education, UNESCO Regional Office for
Education in Africa, Dakar, l987.
15. Fonoloji ati Girama Yoruba, (A Manual
of Yoruba Phonology and Grammar written in Yoruba) Ibadan: University
Press Ltd., l990.
16.
English Lexis and Structure (For Secondary Schools and
Colleges), Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books, l990.
17. Language and the
Nation, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, l991.
18. Speaking in Tongues:
Implications of Multilingualism for Language Policy in Nigeria.
Nigerian National Order of Merit Lecture), Kaduna: Nigerian National
Order of Merit Board of Trustees, 1992.
19. New Englishes: A West African Perspective (Selected Papers
from an International Conference on Communicative Competence and the
Role of English as a Second Language, edited with Ayo Banjo and Andrew
Thomas), Ibadan: Mosuro Publishers for the British Council, 1995.
20. Language and Exclusion: The Consequences of Language Policy in
Africa. Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 2000.
21. Sociolinguistics in West Africa (ed.). (IJAL Vol. 141).
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000.
B. Chapters in
Books
1. "The
Structure of the Yoruba Predicator" Acte du 2e Colloque Int.
de Linquistique Négro-Africaine, Dakar l963, pp. 119-126.
2.
"Yoruba", Chapter 14 in Elizabeth Dunstan (ed.)
Twelve Nigerian Languages,
Longmans, l969, pp. 163-172.
3. "Zero in Tonal Analysis", Actes
du Xe Congres International des Linquistes, Bucarest,
August 28-September 2, l967, Vol. IV, Bucarest: Editions de l'Academie
de la Republique Socialiste de
Roumanie, l970.
4.
"The English Language in Nigeria:, Chapter 2 in John
Spencer (ed.) The English Language in West Africa, London,
Longman, l971, pp. 35-48.
5. "Nasal Harmony in
Mbe", Actes du 8e Congres de la Societe Linquistique de
L'Afrique Occidentale, Vol. I: Abidjan: l971, pp. 101-107.
6. "On the Derivation of Adverbs from Higher
Sentences" in Luigi Heilman (ed.) Proceedings of the Eleventh
International Congress of Linguistics, Societe editrice il Mulino
Bologne, 1974, pp. 597-519.
7. "Relative Clauses and
Nominalized Sentences in Yoruba" in Robert K. Herbert (ed)
Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on African Linguistics, Ohio
State University Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 20. l975,
pp.202-209.
8. "Fagunwa and the Folktale Tradition"
in W. Abimbola (ed.) Yoruba Oral Tradition, Department of
African Languages and Literatures, University of Ife, l975, pp.
935-971.
9. "The
Changing Pattern of Bilingualism in Nigeria" (with A. Afolayan)
in E.A. Afendras (ed.) Patterns of Bilingualism RELC Anthology
Series 8, Singapore: Singapore University Press, l980, pp.
217-237.
10. "Linguistic
Issues in Black Communication: Comment", International
Conference on Black Communication (A Bellagio Conference,
August 6-9, l979) Rockefeller Foundation Working Papers, New York,
Rockefeller Foundation, l980, pp. 52-57.
11. "Regional Languages in
Nigeria: Hausa and Yoruba" in African Languages
(Proceedings of the Meeting of Experts on the Use of Regional and
Sub-regional African Languages as media of
Culture and Communication within the Continent, Bamako, Mali 18-22
June, 1979) Paris, UNESCO, l981, pp. 47-52.
12. "Standard Nigerian English: Issues of
Identification" in B. Kachru (ed.) The Other Tongue: English
Across Cultures, Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press,
l982, pp. 99-111.
13.
"Constituents of Yoruba Studies" in A. Afolayan
(ed.) Yoruba Language and Literature, Ibadan: University of Ife
Press and University Press Ltd., l982, pp. 1-12.
14. "Lexical Matching in
Yoruba Poetry" in A. Afolayan (ed.) op. cit. 1982, pp. 82-94.
15. "On Devising, Reforming, and
Harmonizing Orthographies in African Languages" in UNESCO
African Languages: Proceedings of the Meeting of Experts on
Transcription and Harmonization of African Languages,
Paris: UNESCO, l981, pp. 46-57.
16.
"Local Languages
Development: Policy and Practice" in B. Ikara (ed.)
Nigerian
Languages and Cultural
Development, Lagos: National Language Center, l982,
pp. 15-22.
17. "African Languages and National
Development: Actual and Potential" in A. Olabimtan (ed.)
African Universities and the Development of African Languages,
Accra: Association of African Universities, l982, pp. 1-8.
18. Entries on "Crowther",
"Sprachpolitik in Africa", and "Yoruba" in H.
Jungraithmayr and W.J.G. Mohlig (eds.) Lexikon de Afrikanistik,
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin, l983, pp. 65, 224-226,
271-272.
19. "When is Language Planning Not
Planning?" in Shiro Hattori and Kazuko Inoue (eds.)
Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Linguists,
Tokyo, August 29-September 4, l982, Tokyo: The Proceedings Committee,
l983, pp. 1156-1159. A fuller version is published in Journal
of West African Languages, XVII, 1, l987, pp. 6-14.
20. "Minority Languages and Literacy"
in Florian Coulmas (ed.) Linguistic Minorities and Literacy (Trends
in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 26). Berlin: Mouton
Publishers, l984, pp. 21-27.
21.
"Curriculum Development Trends in Yoruba" in
Papers for the Conference on Review of Current Trends in Nigerian
Educational Research (N.E.R.C. Pre-publication Edition), l985.
22.
"Barriers to Effective Education in West African
Languages" in Kay Williamson (ed.)
West African Language in Education, Wien:
Veroffentlichungen der Institut fuer Afrikanistik und Agyptologie der
Universitat Wien, l985, pp. 22-38.
23. "Reported Speech in Yoruba"
in Florian Coulmas (ed.) Direct and Indirect
Speech,
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, l986, pp. 77-97.
24. "Negation and Serial Verbal Construction
Types in Yoruba" in Gerrit Dimmendaal (ed.) Current Approaches
to African Linguistics, Vol.3, Dordrecht, Holland: Foris
Publications, l986, pp. 31-40.
25. "Language in
National Integration: Nigeria as a case study" in Joseph O. Okpaku,
Alfred Opubor, & Benjamin O. Oloruntimehin (eds.) (1986). The
Arts and Civilization of Black and African Peoples (Vol.
4: Black Civilization and African Languages). FESTAC 1977
Colloquium Paper, Lagos: Centre for Black and African Arts and
Civilization, pp. 60-70.
26.
"Language Norms" in Werner Bahner, Joachim Schildt,
and Dieter Viehweger (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourteenth
International Congress of Linguists, Berlin 10-15 August, Berlin:
Akademie-Verlag, 1987 pp. 105-113.
27. "Pride and prejudice in multilingualism
and development" in Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss (eds.)
African Languages, Development and the State, London & New
York: Routledge, 1993, pp. 33-43.
28. "Language Policy Options in
Basic Education: Implications for Policy Formulation" Leslie
Limage (ed.) Language Policy, literacy and Culture Paris:
Unesco, 1993,
pp.
23-30.
29. "Language and Cross-cultural
Communication" in Martin Putz Language in Contact
and Conflict Situations Amsterdam: Benjamins,
1994, pp. 89-101.
30. "Issues in Second
Language Learning in a Multilingual Context" in Lawrence F.
Bouton and Yamuna Kachru (eds.) Pragmatics and Language
Learning Monograph No. 5, 1994, 25-38.
31. "Politeness across cultures: Implications for second language
teaching" in James E. Alatis (ed.) Georgetown University
Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, D.C.:
Georgetown University Press, 1994, pp. 117-127.
32. "The Importance of a Language Survey in Nigeria's National
Development" in Noel Ihebuzor and Ismail Jinadu
(eds.) Proceedings of the Seminar on Language Survey Planning.
Lagos: Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council, 1994,
pp. 5-10.
33. "Fifteen Years of the National
Policy on Education: How far has Language fared? in Wale Adegbite and
Chukwuemeka Onuakaogu (eds.) Language in Education in Nigeria: Some
Critical Perspectives (In Honour of Professor Adebisi Afolayan),
Ile-Ife: Centre for Language in Education Development, 1994, 1-10.
34. "English in the Nigerian Environment" in
Ayo Bamgbose, Ayo Banjo and Andrew
Thomas (eds.) New Englishes: A West African Perspective
Ibadan: Mosuro Publishers for the British Council, 1995, pp. 9-26.
35. "Three Decades of African
Linguistic Research" in Akinbiyi Akinlabi (ed.) Theoretical
Approaches to African Linguistics Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press,
Inc., 1995, pp. 1-17.
36. "Vowel
deletion or vowel coalescence: a problem in Yoruba phonology" in
Nolue Emenanjo and Ozo-mekuri Ndimele (eds.) Issues in African
Languages and Linguistics: Essays in Honour of Kay Williamson,
1995, pp. 19-29.
37.
"Post-Imperial English in Nigeria" in Joshua A. Fishman,
Andrew A. Conrad & Alma Rubal-Lopez (eds.) Post-Imperial
English: Status Change in Former British and American Colonies,
1940-1990. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996, pp. 357-372.
38. "The role of English in development
across West Africa" in Melvia Hasman, Aymerou Mbaye &
Andy Thomas (eds.) Across the West African Divide. Dakar: The
British Council, 1997, pp. 84-85.
39. "Non-native Englishes on Trial" in Mary Esther Dakubu-Kropp
(ed.) English
in
Ghana. Accra: Ghana English Studies Association,
1997, pp. 9-22.
40. "International
Association of World Englishes (IAWE) and World Englishes: Which way
forward?" in Larry Smith and Michael L. Forman (eds.) World
Englishes 2000, Honolulu: University of Hawa'i and East West
Center, 1997, pp. 204-208.
41. "Language
planning in West Africa" in Ayo Bamgbose (ed.)
Sociolinguistics in West Africa, 2000, pp. 101-117.
42. "African Language Use and Development:
Aspirations and Reality" in H. Ekkehard Wolff and Orin D. Gensler
(eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of African
Linguistics, Leipzig 1977, Cologne: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag, 2000,
pp. 19-32.
43.
"Language and the African Renaissance" in H. Ekkehard Wolff (ed.)
Tied
Tongues: The African Renaissance as a Challenge for Language
Planning, Muenster, LIT Verlag, 2003, pp. 39-60.
44.
"English and Inequality: An African Perspective. In Segun Awonusi and
A.
Babalola
(eds.)(2004). The Domestication of English in Nigeria
(A Festschrift in Honour of Abiodun
Adetugbo). Lagos: University of Lagos Press, pp. 1-14.
45. "Negotiating
English through Yoruba: Implications for Standard Nigerian
English.
In Kola Owolabi and Ademola Dasylva (eds.)(2004). Forms and
Functions of English and Indigenous Languages in Nigeria (A
Festschrift in Honour of Ayo Banjo). Ibadan: Group Publishers, pp.
612-630.
46. "Language
planning and language policies: Issues and prospects" In Piet
van
Sterkenburg (ed.)(2004) Linguistics Today: Facing a Greater
Challenge. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing
Company, pp. 61-88.
47. "Sauce for the
Goose, Sauce for the Gander. Why an African child should be
taught in an African Language. In: Making Multilingual
Education a Reality for All. Operationalizing Good
Intentions. ed. by Joachim Friedrich Pfaffe, 2004.
Proceedings of the joint Third International Conference of the
Association for the Development of African Languages in Education,
Science and Technology (ADALEST) and the Fifth Malawian National
Language Symposium held at Mangochi, Malawi, 30 August - 3 September
2004. Centre for Language Studies, University of Malawi and GTZ, pp.
18-36.
48. "Language Policies" In Olga Subirós (ed.).
Voices. Forum Barcelona 2004, pp. 160-166.
49. "Mother-tongue education: Lessons from the Yoruba Experience.
In: Languages of Instruction for African Emancipation: Focus on
Postcolonial Contexts and Considerations, ed. by Birgit Brock-Utne
and Rodney Kofi Hopson. Cape Town: CASAS; Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na
Nyota, pp. 210-234.
50. "The Languages of Nigeria. In Fèlix Martí, Paul Ortega,
Itziar Idiazabal, Andoni Barrena, Patxi Juaristi, Carme Junyent,
Belen Uranga and Estibaliz Amorrortu (eds.) (2005). Words and
Worlds: World Languages Review. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters
Ltd., pp. 50-51.
C.
Articles
1.
"Verbal-Nominal Collocations in Yoruba: A Problem of
Syntactic Analysis", Journal of West African Languages 1.2
(l964), pp. 27-32.
2. "Assimilation and Contraction
in Yoruba", Journal of West African Languages, 1.2 (1965),
pp. 65-69.
3. "Linguistics and the Secondary
School Teacher", West African Journal of Education 9.2
(l965), pp. 65-69.
4. "The
Assimilated Low one in Yoruba", Lingua, 16:1 (l966), pp.
1-13.
5. "Nominal
Classes in Mbe", Afrika and Uebersee, 49 (l965), pp.
32-53.
6. "Notes on the Phonology of Mbe:,
Journal of West African Languages, 4:1 (l967), pp. 5-11.
7. "Tense/Aspect Forms in
Mbe", Research Notes, Department of Linguistics,
University of Ibadan, 1 (March, l967), pp. 12-20.
8. "Verbal
Classes in Mbe", Afrika and Uebersee, 50 (1967), pp.
173-193.
9. "Language Teaching in Nigeria - A Linguistic
Viewpoint", West African Journal of Education, 11:3 (1967)
pp. 151-155.
10. "First Language Interference", Journal
of the Nigeria English Studies Association, 2:1 (1968), pp.
47-50.
11. "Vowel Harmony in
Yoruba", Journal of African Languages, 6:3 (l967), pp.
268-273.
12. "The Form of Yoruba
Proverbs", Odu. University of Ife, Journal of African
Studies, 4:2 (1968), pp. 74-86.
13. "Yoruba Studies Today",
Odu, A Journal of West African Studies, No. 1 (April 1969), pp.
85-100.
14. "The
Relationship of English and the Vernacular Throughout the Primary and
Secondary Schools", Journal of the Nigeria English Studies
Association, 3:1 (1969), pp. 79-87.
15. "Yoruba Folk
Tales:, Ibadan, 27 (October, l969), pp. 6-12.
16. "Word Play in Yoruba
Poetry", International Journal of American Linguistics,
36:2 (1970), pp. 110-116.
17. "The
Verb-Infinitive Phrase in Yoruba", Journal of West African
Languages, 8:1 (1971), pp. 37-52.
18. "Registers of
English", Journal of the Nigeria English Studies
Association, 4:1 (1970), pp. 81-88.
19. "The Meaning of Olodumare: An
Etymology of the Name of the Yoruba High God", African
Notes (Bulletin of the Institute of African Studies, University of
Ibadan), Vol. VII, No. 1 (1972), pp. 25-32.
20. "The Modifying Serial Construction",
Studies in African Linguistics 4:2 (July, l973), pp.
207-217.
21. "Linguistics and
Language Education: Problems and Prospects", Anthropology and
Language Science in Educational Development (UNESCO Educational
Studies and Documents No. 11), Paris, UNESCO l973, pp. 27-31.
22. "On Serial Verbs and Verbal Status",
Journal of West African Languages, Vol. 9, No. 1, l974, pp.
17-48.
23. "Models of
Communication in Multilingual States", Journal of the Language
Association of Eastern Africa, Vol. 4, No. 1, l979, pp. 5-18, also
in West African Journal of Modern Languages, Vol. 3, l978, pp.
60-65. Available in microfiche in the Center of Applied
Linguistics ERIC Reports. Also reproduced in Asmah Haji Omar
(ed.) National Language and Communication in Multilingual
Societies, Kuala Lumpur: National Language Center, l987.
24.
"Questions and Roles: The Example of Yoruba",
Afrika and Uebersee, Band LXIII, l980, pp. 21-38.
25. "Pronouns,
Concord and Pronominalization", Afrika and Uebersee, Band
LXIII, l980, pp. 189-198.
26. "Are
Yoruba Adverbs Really Nouns?", Journal of West African
Languages, Vol II, 1976, pp. 21-40.
27. "Languages in
Contact: Yoruba and English in Nigeria", Education and
Development, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1982, pp. 329-341.
28. "Issues in the Analysis of Serial Verbal
Constructions", Journal of West African Languages, Vol.
12, No. 2, l982, pp. 3-21.
29. "Education in Indigenous Languages: The
West African Model of Language Education", The Journal of
Negro Education,Vol. 52, No. 1, l983, pp. 57-64.
30. "On Timeless Sentences in
Yoruba", Journal of Nigerian Languages, No. 1, July 1983,
pp. 1-16.
31.
"Mother Tongue Medium and Scholastic Attainment: The
Nigerian Experience", Prospects, Vol XIV, No. 1, 1984, pp.
87-93. (Translated into French, Arabic, Spanish, and
Russian).
32. "Language and
Nation Building", Review of English and Literary Studies,
(Special
Number entitled Language and Polity) Vol. 2, No. 2,
1985, pp. 95-108.
33. "Issues for a
Model of Language Planning", Language Problems and
Language
Planning, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1989, pp. 24-34.
34. "Language
and the National Question in Nigeria" African Notes XIV:
1&2, 1990, pp. 70-80.
35. "Deprived, Endangered
and Dying Languages" Diogenes, 161, 4:1, 1993, pp.
19-25.
36. "Nigeria's
[Language] Choice" The UNESCO Courier (Translated into 32
languages and in Braille), Feb. 1994, pp. 22-26.
37. "On
'new/non-native' Englishes: Comment by Ayo Bamgbose" in
Evangelos A. Afendras et. al. "On 'new/non-native' Englishes:
A gamelan" Journal of Pragmatics 24, 1995,
pp.
302-305.
38. "Torn between the norms: innovations in world Englishes"
World Englishes 17:1, 1998, pp. 1-14.
39. "African Language Development and Language Planning"
Social Dynamics. 25:1, Winter 1999, pp. 13-30.
40. "New Directions in West African Language Studies" Journal
of West African Languages, 28:1, 2000/2001, pp. 115-116.
41. "Coreferentiality and Focus in Textual Cohesion: Evidence from
Yoruba" Journal of West African Languages, 28:2,
2000/2001, pp. 59-70.
42. "World Englishes and Globalization" World Englishes,
20:3, 2001, pp. 357-363.
43. "Mission and Vision of the African Academy of Languages"
Special Bulletin ACALAN (African Academy of Languages), January,
2002.
44. "Collaboration and Initiative in African Language Teaching"
Journal of the African Language Teachers' Association, vol. 3,
2003, pp.1-17.
45. "A recurring decimal: English in language policy and
planning" World Englishes, 22:4, 2003, pp. 419-431.
D. Review
Articles
1. Review of Augustin Simo-Bobda (1994). Aspects of
Cameroon English Phonology In World Englishes,
14: 3, 391-396 (1995).
2. Review of Robert Phillipson (ed.) (2000)
Rights to language: Equity, power and
education and Milkos,
Contra, Robert Phillipson, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas & Tibor
Varady (eds.) (1999) Language, a
right and a resource: approaching linguistic human
Rights. In Language in
Society, 30, 639-643 (2001).
E. Dissertation and
Other Unpublished Papers
1. The Nominal Group in
Yoruba and a Comparison with the English Nominal Group, Edinburgh
University: Dissertation for the Diploma in General Linguistics,
1961.
2. (with R.G.
Armstrong) Mathematical Concepts in Yoruba, Ibadan,
l974,
(mimeographed).
3.
"Linguistics Teaching in Nigeria", Chapter in
International Survey on the Univeristy Teaching of Linguistics ed.
T.A. Sebok (Commissioned by UNESCO, 1973, but still unpublished).
4. "Second Language Teaching in
Nigeria", UNESCO Meeting of Experts on Diversification of Methods
and Techniques for Teaching a Second Language, UNESCO, Paris,
September 15-20, 1975.
5. "Relativization or Nominalization?
- A Case of Structure Versus Meaning", University of Ibadan
Linguistics Seminar, December 4, 1975.
6. "Data and Theory in Linguistics", XII
International Congress of Linguists, Roundtable on Linguistics as an
Empirical Science, Vienna, August 29 - September 2, l977, (Abstract
and Discussion published in the Proceedings).
7. "Language Teaching in a Multilingual
Situation", UNESCO Meeting of Experts on Language Teaching in a
Bi- or Plurilingual and Multicultural Environment,,
UNESCO,
Paris, December 19-23, 1977.
8. "Corpus Planning in Yoruba: The Radio as a Case Study",
Fifteenth West
African Languages Congress, University of Port Harcourt, April 4-10,
1982.
9. "Language, Literacy and National
Development", Keynote Paper, 3rd Annual Conference, Linguistic
Association of Nigeria, University of Ilorin, August 18-22, 1982.
10. "Challenges and Responses in
Mother Tongue Teaching in Nigeria", UNESCO Multidisciplinary
Symposium on the Evolution of Content and Methods of Language Teaching
in Developing Countries and the Production of Teaching Materials
Suited to National Needs and Bilingual or Plurilingual Education,
Paris, April 25-29, 1983.
11.
"The Role of Linguistic
Research in Moulding Language Policy", UNESCO International
Seminar Concerning Current Problems of Linguistic Research in
African and
Caribbean countries, UNESCO, Paris, September 24-27, 1985.
12. "Fagunwa and the
Cult of Realism" Chapter in Papers on D.O. Fagunwa (to be
edited by A. Olabimtan), 1986.
13. "Iha ti Fagunwa ko si
Ise-ona Iwe Itan Aroso", (Fagunwa and the art of the
Novel). Lecture delivered
on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of D.O. Fagunwa's death.
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, December 15, 1988.
14. "Mother Tongue Education: The Nigerian
Experience", Ogun State University 1989 Convocation Lecture,
January 30, l989.
15.
"When rules fail: The pragmatics of vowel elision in
Yoruba" Paper presented at the Linguistics Association of Nigeria
Conference, University of Jos, July 31- August 4,
1989.
16.
"Language Situations and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Paper prepared for the World Conference on Education for All, Center
for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, October
16-17, 1989.
17.
"Issues in the Teaching of Nigerian Languages",
Paper presented at the 14th Annual
Conference of the Committee of Provosts, Colleges of
Education, Nigeria at the College of Education, Ijebu-Ode, September
10-15, 1990.
18. "How to
Achieve Communicative Effectiveness in the Language of
Broadcasting", Keynote Paper presented at the Federal Ministry of
Information Workshop on the Nigerian Media and Language Use, Gateway
Hotel, Otta, March 21-22, 1991.
19.
"General Problems of Implementation of the Language
Provisions of the National Policy on Education", Keynote Address
delivered at the Federal Ministry of Education Seminar on the
Implementation of the Language Provisions of the National Policy on
Education, Gateway Hotel, Ota, October 6-10, 1991.
20. "Language Policy and
Practice in Education: The Nigerian Experience", Paper presented
at the International Conference on Bilingualism and National
Development: Current Perspectives and Future Trends (BAND 91) 9-12,
1991, December, Brunei Darussalam.
21. "Intangible Cultural
Heritage: Problems of Safeguarding and Revitalization" Paper read
at the International Consultation on New Perspectives for Unesco's
Program: The Intangible Cultural Heritage, Unesco, Paris, June 16-17,
1993.
22. "Language Planning Concerns and Language
Education" SLATE Speaker Series, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, November 22, 1993.
23. "Language Prejudice
and Language Policy in Africa" Public Lecture delivered at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 6, 1995.
24. "African Language Situation and its Implications for Language
Planning and Education" Paper presented at the Pan-African
Seminar on African Language Education, Accra, Ghana, August
26-30, 1996.
25. "Linguistic Diversity and Literacy: Issues and Way Forward.
Workshop on Literacy and Linguistic Diversity, ECML, Graz, June
23 - 25, 2005.
26. "Language Policies in Africa". UNESCO WSIS Thematic
Meeting. Multilingualism For Cultural Diversity and
Participation of All in Cyberspace. Palais des Congrès, Bamako, 6-7
May, 2005.
27. "Multilingualism in Democracy. Workshop on Multilingualism and
Development: Education in an integrated society. University of Western
Cape, South Africa. February 25-26, 2005.
28. "Relationship between English and African Languages.
Consultative Meeting on Partnership Between African and Other
Languages in Africa, Bamako, Palais des Congrès, 5 May 2005.
F.
Lectures on General Topics (Published and Unpublished)
1.
"The Purpose of University Education", in L.A. Banjo
and S.O. Unoh (eds.) University Study Guidance lectures,
Ibadan: University of Ibadan Reading Center, 1972.
2. "The Humanities
in the Context of Science and Technology", Lecture delivered at
2nd Faculty of Arts Annual Seminar, University of Lagos, May 7-10,
1986.
3. "The Concept and
Purpose of University Education", in Kayode Ajayi (ed.),
Towards Full Integration into the University System, Ogun State
University Orientation Lecture Series, Ago-Iwoye, 1987.
4. "A View from the Ivory
Tower". A Valedictory Lecture delivered at the University
of Ibadan, 1991.
4. "The role of The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) in the Nigerian University System" Paper prepared for the
Committee of Vice-Chancellors' Annual Seminar, April 1993.
5. Towards a Culture of Social Responsibility. Lecture In
Honour of Wole Soyinka
at Seventy. Ibadan: Development Policy Centre, 2005.
6. "Humanities and University Education" Workshop on Restoring
Excellence in the Faculty of Arts, University of Ado-Ekiti, June
2-3, 2005.
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