Department Faculty Profile - Dr. Leonard Muaka
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Assistant Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures Phone: (336) 750-8618 318 Hall-Patterson 601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Winston-Salem, NC 27110 |
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| Background | |
| • Ph.D., Applied Linguistics with an emphasis on Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. • Advanced Certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. • M.A., General Linguistics, with an emphasis on Syntax and Sociolinguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. • M.A., Applied Linguistics, with an emphasis on the Teaching of English as a Second Language and Second Language Acquisition, Ohio University, Athens • M.A., Linguistics and African Languages, with an emphasis on Swahili language structure, literature and culture, University of Nairobi, Kenya. • B.A., (Upper 2nd Class Honors) Kiswahili and Sociology, University of Nairobi, Kenya |
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| Position Responsibilities | |
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• Mentor and advise students |
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| Credentials | |
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Courses Taught: Elementary Swahili; Intermediate Swahili; ENG 3301Introduction to Linguistics; LLS 1335 Language and Media, ENG 3301, Freshman English Composition, ENG 1302 Freshman English Composition; ENG 3321 Grammars of English;graduate level - Discourse Analysis, Research Methods in Linguistics and Language and Gender; LLS 1304 Dynamics of Language and Globalization; ENG 1312 Engaging the World through Writing; LLS 1334 - Emerging African Literary Voices; 1335 – Language and Media; HON 1300 - Honors Inquiry-Based Seminar (Language Diversity in a Global Era) |
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| Research Interest |
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Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, hybridity, cyber language, emerging media, language and gender, literary criticism, language and media, rhetoric, syntax, African linguistics with a focus on Bantu languages, Film Analysis, second language acquisition, and foreign language pedagogy. |
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| Philosophy |
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| "Learning is a continuous process." | |
