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Dr. Désiré BALOUBI

Associate Professor of English and Linguistics

Shaw University

Raleigh, NC 27601--USA

Spring

Summer 

Fall

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The courses I teach: 

MDS 418

MDS 360

MDS 216

ENG 309

ENG 113

ENG 112

COM 210

INT 205

 EVR 300

HUM 200

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Presentations

Publications

Mentorship

Advisees

Office Hours

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Learn about the Idaacha and the

Idaacha

dialect of Yoruba

BENIN

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Linguistics: what is linguistics?

Ethnologue

JWAL

French 

Rhetoric

English Composition: Emproving my writing skills

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résumé

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University of Ghana, Legon

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Dr. Désiré Baloubi is an applied linguist from the Republic of Benin in West Africa, where he was on the teaching staff of Benin Teacher Training Colleges and the Department of English at the National University of Benin from 1986 to 1995.  He was educated at the University of Ghana--Legon, the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Porto-Novo in Benin, the University of Durham in England, and Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana in the United States of America (USA). He holds degrees from different Universities:

• MA in English (Major) and Spanish (Minor) from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of the National University of Benin (Benin)- Thesis: Common Errors in English at Secondary School Level in Benin

• MA in Applied Linguistics with specific reference to English Language Teaching (ELT) from the University of Durham (England)- Thesis: A Critical Look at the Communicative Approach and the Traditional Methods of TEFL in Secondary Education in Benin

• MS in Information and Communication Sciences from Ball State University (USA)

• Ph.D. in English: Applied Linguistics (Major) and TESOL (Cognate) from Ball State University (USA)- Dissertation: The Morphophonemics of the Idaacha Dialect of Yoruba

Dr. Baloubi's major interests are 1)  English: Composition & Rhetoric, Present-Day English Language Usage, and Culture; 2) Linguistics: Phonology, Morphology, Language and Culture, Language and Gender, Discourse Analysis, Cross-cultural Pragmatics, Second Language Acquisition, and African Linguistics with emphasis on Yoruba dialectology and particular attention to the IDAACHA dialect of Yoruba.  Other  interests include Spanish (Language & Culture), French (Language & Culture) Political Science, Human Communication or Speech Communication/Public Speaking, and TESOL with  concentration on multicultural issues.  He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC (USA).

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LANGUAGES & CULTURES

1. West Africa

-IFA: Traditional African Religion/Science

2.  East Africa

3.  Southern Africa

4.  Central Africa

5.  Northern Africa  

AFRICAN LANGUAGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION (ALTA)

National African Language Resource Center (NALRC)

http://lang.nalrc.wisc.edu/nalrc/home.html