Yoruba Language Translator & Instructor

ADEGOKE A. ADETUNJI

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Oak Forest, IL 60452

Tel: 708-***-****

Email: ***.**********@*****.***

Website: www.glinguist.com

www.agapeafri.com

Education

****-**** *** York University, New York

Non Degree: Africana Studies

2008-2011 Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife

Degree: Master of Arts, English

2001-2006 Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife

Degree: Bachelor of Arts, English Studies

Academic Positions

• eMentor (Yoruba Language & Culture Instructor), The Language Enabled Airmen Program (LEAP), VL247, LLC, Syracuse, NY, 2015-Present.

• Assistant Lecturer, English, Department of History and Languages, College of Humanities & Management Sciences, Elizade University, Nigeria, 2012-2013.

• Assistant Lecturer, English, Department of Languages, Covenant University, Nigeria, 2011-2012.

• Fulbright Professor of Yoruba Language & Culture, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University, New York, 2010-2011.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, English, Department of Languages, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria, April-August, 2010. Other Work Experiences

• Case Manager (Psych-Rehab), Briar of Forest Edge, 8001 S. Western Ave., Chicago, IL 60620, May 2015 - Present

• Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services Coordinator (PRSC), Crestwood Terrace Nursing Center, 13301 S. Central Avenue, Crestwood, IL 60445, April 2014 – Present.

Grants & Awards

• Fulbright Scholarship & Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship, the United States Department of Education & International Institute of Education, 2010-2011.

• Travel Grant, World Social Science Forum, Montreal, Canada, 2013.

• Registration Grant, Language & Society Research Committee (RC 25), International Sociological Association (ISA), XVIII World Conference, Yokohama. Japan, 2014.

Administrative & Other Positions Held

• Peer Educator, National Youth Service Corps/UNICEF HIV/AIDS & Reproductive Health Campaign Program, Edo State, Nigeria, 2008-2010.

• Secretary, Community Development Youth Forum, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria, 2004-2005.

• Academic Adviser, 300 Level Students, 2011/2012 Academic Session

• Webmaster, Department of Languages, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, 2011/2012 Academic Session.

• Member, College of Development Studies Week, 2011/2012 Academic Session, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

• Member, Covenant University Screening and Admission Test (CUSAT), 2011/2012 Academic Session, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

• Coordinator, University Chapel, Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, Nigeria, 2012-2013.

• Member, Campus Sanitation Committee, Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, Nigeria, 2012-2013.

• Examination Officer, Department of History & Languages, Faculty of Humanities & Management Sciences, Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, Nigeria, 2012-2013

• Member, University Sanitation Committee, Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State, Nigeria, 2012-2013

Skills

• Freelance English-Yoruba Translator & Interpreter

• Online Teaching & Distance Learning

• Authentic Second Language Teaching Resource Development

• Computer Skills: MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Corpus Linguistic Software & Point Click Care (Healthcare Management Software 3.0) & Quick Book: Accounting Software

• Youth Leadership & Public Speaking Skills

• Event Planning & Logistics

On-going Research

• "Invisibility of Diversity": Other Minorities in American Colleges

• What does Webometric Ranking Mean to Private Universities in Africa?

• Multiple Voices and Name-Calling in Online News (accepted with conditions by Africa Today - Muse Project)

• Nigerian Currency Notes: Narratives of Race and Power Relations

• Jail All the Gays: The War against LGBT Community in Africa (To be presented at the Third International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology, Vienna, Austria, July, 2016)

• Social Semiotics of Financial Corruption Discourse in Nigerian National Dailies Publications

• Chiluwa, I. and Adetunji, A.A. (2014) Twittering the 2011 Bombings in Nigeria: Pragmatic Acts in Nigerian English, in Chiluwa, I. Ifukor, P. & Taiwo, R. (eds.) Pragmatics of Nigerian English in Digital Discourse, München, Germany: Lincom Academic Publishers.

• Chiluwa, I. and Adetunji, A.A. (2013) “Twittering Boko Haram Upheaval in Nigeria Investigating Pragmatic Acts in the Social Media:”, Africa Today

(Indiana University Press), Vol.59,3. pp. 82-102.3.

• Adetunji, A.A. (2012) Language Use on Facebook Asynchronous Interactional Exchanges. In R. Taiwo & I. Chiluwa (eds.), Computer Mediated Discourse in Africa, Nova Science Publishers, USA.

• Adetunji, A.A (2012) “English in Science and Technology Education in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions”, In Olateju, M. (ed.), Handbook of General Studies for Higher Institutions in Nigeria, College Press and Publishers: Ibadan, Nigeria.

• Adetunji, A.A. (2011). Social Semiotics and Television Advertisements: Nigerian Example. Lambert Academic Publishing: Germany (monograph)

• Adetunji, A.A. (2011). “Language and National Identity in Popular Music” Papers in English & Linguistics (PEL), Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Vol. 12, 2011, pp. 195-215. 7.

• Adetunji, A.A. (2011) “Language and Identity Representation in Popular Music”, The International Journal of Innovative Interdisciplinary Research, Australia, Vol.1,1. pp.

150-164.

Affiliations

• Member, Linguistic Ethnography Forum, United Kingdom

• Member, Language & Society Research Committee (RC25), International Sociological Association (ISA), Madrid, Spain.

Presentations

• Linguistic Association of Ghana Conference 2011, August 8th-11th, University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Sexist Photos and Cartoons: Representation of Female Body Parts in Naijabookofjokes on Facebook.

• Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants Summer Orientation/Training,

• Arizona State University, Tempe, USA, 2010.

• Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants Conference, Washington D.C., USA, 2010

• Teaching About the United Nations, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA, 2011.

• Humour in a Social Networking Site (SNS), 39th International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, July 16th – 20th, 2012.

• Declarations as Markers: A Linguistic Investigation of Nigerian Pentecostal Christian Discourse, The Toyin Falola Annual Conference, Excellence Hotel, Ogba-Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, July 2nd –4th, 2012.

Courses Previously Taught

• Applied English Linguistics

• Basic English Grammar and Writing

• English Syntax

• Communication in English

• Contemporary English Usage

• English Language in Nigeria

• Introduction to Nigerian/African Literature

• English Phonetics and Phonology

• Elements of Drama

• Yoruba Language & Culture

• British Literature (from Old to Modern Period)

Interests

Body Exercise, Fishing, Family & Traveling

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