Applied Linguistics and Literacy
in Africa & the Diaspora Research Network

 

Co-Convenors – ReN Africa (AILA)

Dr. Sinfree Makoni

 

Department of Applied Linguistics and African and African American Studies, The College of Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University

Sinfree Makoni is a Pan Africanist. He has held professional appointments at the University of the Western Cape, and the University of Swaziland. He currently teaches at Pennsylvania State University. He is co-author of “Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts” which was short listed for Best Book in Applied Linguistics by the British Association of Applied Linguistics in 2006. He has co-edited numerous books including “Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages” (2007), “Black Linguistics”, “Language Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas” (2003), “Ageing in Africa: Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches (2002), “Freedom and Discipline: Essays in Applied Linguistics from Southern Africa” (2001), and “Language and Institutions in Africa” (1999). He has published in a number of journals across the globe including The Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Per Linguam, the Southern African Journal of Applied Linguistics, TESOL QUARTERLY, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Journal of Language Identity and Education, and International Journal of Multilingual Research, and Current Issues in Language Planning. His main research interests are in urban African languages, popular culture, language and health, and police communication.

Steering Committee – ReN Africa (AILA)

L. Oladipo Salami

 

Associate Professor, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife

Dr. Salami is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He has contributed to a number of books including Nigeria and Globalization: Discourses on Identity Politics and Social conflict (Center for Black and African Arts Civilization, 2004) and Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion (John Benjamins, 2006). He has publications in a number of international journals among which are Language in Society, Anthroplogical Linguistics, Journal of Asian and African Studies, ODU: Journal of West African Studies, SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics and Language Policy. His areas of research interest are language variation and use, language contact, bi/ multilingualism, language policy (national language, language and education) and language and identity.

Dr. Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu

 

Professor, Department of English, Howard University

Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu is a Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Howard University, Washington, DC. He is recognized internationally for his scholarship in the field of sociolinguistics, and more specifically in the areas of codeswitching, multilingualism, language policy and planning, world Englishes, language and identity, and African linguistics. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and received a Fulbright award. Before joining Howard University, Dr Kamwangamalu taught linguistics at the National University of Singapore, the University of Swaziland, and the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa. Dr Kamwangamalu is Polity Editor for the Series Current Issues in Language Planning. He is a member of the editorial board of World Englishes, Language Policy, and Studies in Language Policy in South Africa. He has served as editor of Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, and as a manuscript consultant for the University of Natal Press, Multi- lingual Matters, TESOL Quarterly, Language Problems and Language Planning, Applied Linguistics, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, and Multilingua – Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication. His publications include a co-edited book, Language and Institutions in Africa (2001), a monograph, The Language Planning Situation in South Africa (2001), some fifty peer-refereed articles, and book-length special issues he has guest-edited for Multilingua 17 (1998), International Journal of the Sociology of Language 144 (2000), World Englishes 21 (2002) and Language Problems and Language Planning (2005). Dr Kam- wangamalu has presented over fifty scholarly papers at professional meetings in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Dr. Ulrike Hanna Meinhof

 

Professor, School of Humanities, University of Southampton

Mastin Prinsloo

 

School of Education, University of Cape Town
Mastin Prinsloo is an Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Cape Town and Director of the Centre for Applied Language and Literacy Studies in South Africa (CALLSSA). His fields of interest include the New Literacy Studies and literacy and language in contemporary and historical social practice, including early childhood literacy, digital literacies and adults’ literacies. He was the Convener of the AILA Scientific Commission on Literacy from 1999 to 2003.

 

 

Dr. Juliet Tembe

 

Department of Languages, Literature and Linguistics – Islamic University in Uganda
Uganda Dr. Tembe completed her B.A (English Language Studies & Literature with a concurrent diploma in Education) and M.Ed. degrees at Makerere University (Uganda) specializing in TESOL. She has since taught at secondary school, national teacher training colleges and at the university level. After teaching English at the high school level for several years, Dr. Tembe completed an M.Ed. course at Makerere University after which she joined the teacher education programme at the Institute of Teacher Education, Kyambogo. She recently completed her PhD in TESL at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is currently a lecturer in the department of Languages, Literature and Linguistics at the Islamic University in Uganda. Her research interests include: second language teaching; language policy and planning; bi-/multi-lingual literacy; and minority language education. As a member of the Association of World Education (Uganda Chapter), she has been involved in research on conflict management among pastoral communities in North eastern Uganda. Her current research is in gender and literacy as well as the use of ICTs for teacher development. She is the current chair of the largest non-governmental HIV/AIDS service organization in Uganda and Africa: “The AIDS Support Organization (TASO)” and a member of the Uganda AIDS Commission.

 

 

ReN Newsletter Editor and Webmaster

Lauryn Oates

 

Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia
Lauryn Oates has a background in international development studies and peace and conflict, and is now working towards a doctorate in language and literacy education. Her research is concerned with access and use of mother tongue resources for teachers in Uganda, particularly in the conflict-affected region of Gulu in the north, and the potential which information communications technologies holds for facilitating mother tongue teaching at the primary level. She was worked with a variety of international human rights, gender equality and international development organizations around the world and has field experience in Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

ReN Africa Members

 

 

A		Research Interests:
Dr. Carolyn Temple Adger cadger@cal.org www.cal.org	Director, LanguageA in Society Division Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC (Language in Society) USA	Multilingual education; mother tongue education; language and literacy.
Dr. Joseph Benjanmin Archibald Afful	Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Cape Coast, Ghana	Academic literacy (writing), disciplinary discourse (variation), sociolinguistics, postgraduate pedagogy, (critical) discourse analysis, and general linguistics.
Christopher Uchenna Agbedo Christopher.agbedo@unn.edu.ng	Ph.D, Senior Lecturer Linguistics & Nigerian Languages, University of Nigeria, Nsukka Nigeria	Linguistic variation studies, language planning, translation studies, discourse analysis, pragmatics, contact linguistics, language attitude studies, child language acquisition, language teaching theories/methodologies, needs analysis, aphasia.
Claire Aitchison c.aitchison@uws.edu.au	Senior lecturer, Learning Skills Unit, University of Western Sydney, Australia	Academic literacies, especially in the field of doctoral writing and writing for publication; writing as a social activity, particularly as evidenced in writing groups and through peer review.
Cate Almon calmon@temple.edu	Professional Assistant – ESL ESL Department, Northampton Community College, USA	Retention and engagement of multilingual students in community college settings, as well as their academic and computer literacy development.
Dr. Samuel Andema	Languages and Literature Department, Kyambogo University Uganda	Digital Literacy and Teacher training, the Role of NGOs in the Promotion of Reading Culture in Africa, Literacy and Peace building, Literacy and Poverty Eradication, Family Literacy, Literacy Practices in Crises Areas, Language Policy and Mother Tongue Education.
David Anyandwile dnyandwile01@yahoo.co.uk	Community Worker, Kahama District in Shinyang region, Tanzania. Tanzania	Language, literacy and development; cultural orientation and literacy levels in Shinyang region, Tanzania.
Marlene Asselin marlene.asselin@ubc.ca www.lled.educ.ubc.ca	Associate Professor, Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada	New literacies and social media, Information literacy, School librarianship in international contexts, Teacher education and literacy education in Ethiopia
Elsa Auerbach elsa.auerback@umb.edu www.umb.edu	English Department, University of Massachusetts at Boston USA	Adult education and literacy, participatory curriculum development, English as an Additional Language, worker education, teacher education.
Olushola Bamidele Are areolusola@yahoo.co.uk	Arts and Social Sciences, Kogi State Polytecnic, Lokoja Nigeria	Literacy and reading in L2 contexts

B		Research Interest
Margaret Loyce Baleeta margabaleeta@yahoo.com	Language Education, Bugema University UGANDA	Literacy and applied linguistics
Dr. Gary Barkhuizen g.barkhuizen@auckland.ac.nz www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/staff/	Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand	Sociolinguistics, language teaching and learning, teacher education, narrative inquiry
Dr. Hassan Belhiah h.belhiah@alhosnu.ae www.aui.ma	Center for Academic Development, Al-Akhawayn University in IfraneMorocco	TESOL, second language acquisition, conversation analysis, nonverbal communication, literacy skills, language policy and language planning.
Jean Baptist Bigirimana bigirimanajb@gmail.com Arts Department, Katholiek University Leuven	Researcher, Arts Department, Katholiek University Leuven, Belgium	Translations Studies, Linguistics, Terminology, Lexicology, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Cross-cultural studies, Literature, Education, Policy Analysis and Management, International Politics, M&E
Ezekiel Tunde Bolaji bolajiezekiel@gmail.comwww.aocoed.edu.ng	Department of Theatre Arts, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Oto/Ijankin, Nigeria	Linguistics (Phonology and morphology especially as it relates to the Yoruba language)
Glorious Bolokwe bolokwegk@yahoo.co.uk www.ub.bw	University of Botswana	Medium of instruction and pedagogy in global language.
Dr. Joseph Botha	Wits School of Education – Curriculum Division South Africa	Teaching of reading and writing in primary schools, in particular problems with poor literacy in African languages
Wendy Brown wendybrown@cotni.org www.cotni.org	Director of Education, Department of Education, Children of the Nations	Providing education and care for orphans and destitute children in Sierra Leone, Malawi, and Uganda.
Grace Bunyi kifaru@kenyaweb.com	School and Department: Kenyatta University, School of Education Kenya	Language policy and practice, multilingual classroom talk, use of African languages in education and language and educational inequalities.
Anitra Butler anitra.butler@gmail.com www.pgcc.edu	Associate Proffesor, Teacher Education and Early Childhood Education, Prince George’s Community College	Inclusive primary and secondary education for individuals with special needs within the developing communities of the African Diaspora and the incorporation of assistive technologies
Alick Kadango Bwanali akbwanali@yahoo.co.uk	University of Malawi, Centre for Language StudiesMalawi	Terminology Development in African (Malawian) Indigenous Languages; Examining existing linguistic forms of indigenous terms with the goal to use already existing strategies of language development to inform further terminology development in African Languages.

C		Research Details
Suresh Canagarajah	Pennsylvania State University, Departments of Applied Linguistics and English Sri Lanka and USA	Bilingualism, discourse analysis, academic literacy, ethnography, critical practice.
Cecelia Cassell ceceliacassell@yahoo.com	Department of Language and Social Sciences Education, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana	An Assessment of the Teacher Training Reading Curricular Implemented at Teacher Training Institutions in Liberia
Mr. Ian Cheffy	SIL International and Lancaster University United Kingdom	Literacy and development, literacy and globalisation, adult literacy programmes, adult literacy methodology, literacy practices in rural contexts, ethnographic research, multilingual education, and minority language development
Andrew Chimpololo chimpololo@yahoo.com www.unima.mw/	Continuing Education Centre, University of Malawi	Language and education, language policy and planning, bilingual education and English language teaching.
John Clegg jclegg@lineone.net www.bristol.ac.uk	Graduate School of Education, University of  Bristol, United Kingdom	Language in education in Africa; Multilingual education; Content and language integrated learning
Allie Cleghorn, allie@education.concordia.ca	Professor, Department of Education - Educational Studies, Concordia University	Language issues in primary and pre-primary education in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa; effects of globalization on teachers' thoughts and practice in India, Canada, and South Africa
Ms. Brigid Goitse Conteh	Communication and Study Skills Unit, University of Botswana, Botswana	English Language Education, Verbal and written classroom discourse, English for Academic/specific purposes, e-learning, instructional materials development

D		Research Interests
Diane Dagenais www.educ.sfu.ca	Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University Canada	Second language education with a focus on language learning in contexts of sociocultural diversity, immigration, bilingualism, multilingualism, literacy, and bilingual (immersion) programs.
Mancha Sunday Dalyop sunmandalyop@yahoo.com www.opendoorsnigeria.org	Reading Clinic and Vocational Unit, Open Doors Special Education Centre, Nigeria	Developmental reading for individuals with intellectual disabilities; the role of the reading specialist in primary schools in Jos.
Cathy Davidson cathy_davidson@sil.org	SIL International Africa Area Cameroon	Adult education, development of literacy skills (particularly in adults), training and capacity building.
Pierre de Galbert pierredegalbert@post.harvard.edu	Independent Researcher, Uganda	Education in Africa, Literacy and Numeracy, Language of Instruction.
Iutung Denis iutungdenis@yahoo.co.uk	Dept of Statistics and Economics, Gulu University, Uganda	Quantitative research methods; Questionnaire design, data collection, entry, analysis and report writing.
Ms. Snoeks Desmond www.familyliteracyproject.co.za	Family Literacy Project	The impact of parental reading with children on the development of early literacy skills, especially in Africa; and the long term benefits of this interest by parents in their children’s reading habits.
Hanlie Dippenaar ajf.dippenaar@up.ac.za	Lecturer, Humanities Education, University of Pretoria	What is academic language proficiency; Language across the curriculum; community engagement, academic service-learning and how could that be used to improve students' learning.
Ms. Kerryn Dixon http://web.wits.ac.za	Department of Languages, Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Early childhood literacy, language policy, teacher education
Dr. Okaka Dok okakadok@yahoo.com	Kyambogo University, Literature	Language, Literature, film
Saidi Omar Dramani dramanisaidi@gmail.com	Islamic University in Uganda - Arua Campus , Uganda	Lexicography of less documented languages, and applied linguistics in general.
Ms. Iris Dumenden	School of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, La Trobe University Australia	The learning needs (literacy and ESL) of young adult refugees from Africa who have had minimal or severely interrupted schooling before arriving in Australia.
Eric Dwyer eric.dwyer@fiu.ed www.ericsdwyer.info	Associate professor – Foreign Language Education, USA, Teaching and Learning Dept., Florida International University and National University of Rwanda	Contributions of local knowledge into second language pedagogy
Charlyn Dyers	Associate Professor, Dept Linguistics, University of the Western Cape, Uganda	Space, migration and multillingualism; focus on newly integrated townships in the Cape Town area to find out how people are negotiating the new space and issues of identity through language.

E		Research Interests
Christine Earnshaw cearnshaw@codecan.org www.codecan.org	CODE Canada	Mother-tongue and/or bilingual education; language issues and children’s book publishing; teaching instruction in primary schools; literacy and program development; community and school libraries; reading promotion
Dr. Grabriel Bassey Egbe egbeg@veritas.edu.ng www.veritas.edu.ng	Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja (The Catholic University of Nigeria)	Investigating reading, writing and literacy challenges among learners of all categories especially where English is used as a second language.
Rabaa El-Tayeb ummkamal@hotmail.com	English Department, Faculty of Education- Aljouf University Kingdom of Saudia Arabia	Research Interests: sociolingusitics, psycholinguistics, language Motivation and attitudes, impact of globalization on language, gender and language
Craig Esbeck craigesbeck@yahoo.com www.mangotreeuganda.org	Program Director, Lango Literacy Project, Mango Tree	Early primary literacy in African home languages
Norma Evans nevans@edc.org www.idd.edc.org	Senior Research Associate, Education Development Center, International Education, Education Development Center, USA	Bilingual education; teachers’ perceptions of literacy development and effective reading/writing instructional practices; effective pre-service/ inservice literacy training models; professional standards for literacy instruction
Dr. Rinelle Evans revans@postino.up.ac.za	Humanities Education, University of Pretroia	Teacher education in English language methodology; Face-to-face instructional design and communication; and classroom literacies

F		Research Interests
Dr. Gibson Ferguson	Member and Treasurer of the BAAL Language in Africa SIG, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield United Kingdom	Language Policy and Planning, Language in Education, Teacher Education, and Language Testing.
Ekwaro Francis fekwaro@yahoo.com www.easlis.mak.ac.ug	Lecturer, East African School of Library & Information Science, Makerere University	Community Literacy, Information Literacy, Adult Literacy, ICTs and Literacy among others.

G		Research Interests
M.B.A. Gabriel mbagaby2002@yahoo.fr	Department of African languages and linguistics, University of Yaounde 1 Cameroon	Language education in multilingual settings, Pragmatics (socio and pragmalinguistics), Language material development, literacy education and planning, politeness studies in African and non-African languages, and language in social contexts.
Ms. Paula Gains www.molteno.co.za	The Molteno Project: Language Literacy and Educator Development South Africa	Early literacy pedagogy in a multilingual context and the centrality of the conceptualizations, identity and actions of the early literacy teacher.
Agatha J. van Ginkel agatha_van_ginkel@sil.org	Leeds Metropolitan University, UK and SIL Africa Area UK, Netherlands, Kenya	Mother tongue literacy, bilingual education, transfer literacy from the L2 to L1, language planning and policy, testing and evaluation of reading.
Dr. Barbara E Graham Barb_E_Graham@sil.org www.sil.org	Mother Tongue Education Dept, BTL / SIL, Kenya	Multilingual Education
Dr. Audrey Grant A.	Faculty of Education, La Trobe University Australia	East African education and Australia: post-colonial ‘Africanisation’ policy; (with John Kole) Kenyan schooling and international students; (with Sarah Hasaba) women, literacy and poverty reduction.

H		Research Interests
Dr. Sarah Hasaba lucky_nuunu@yahoo.co.uk	Post-Doctoral Fellow, United Nations University, Tokyo, Uganda and Japan	Literacy learning and education for rural women; gender inequality and inequity, poverty and illiteracy among rural communities in developing countries.
Monica Hendricks m.hendricks@ru.ac.za www.ru.ac.za/isea	Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University South Africa	Into children’s classroom writing in English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa; sense of self and identity that emerges from classroom writing.
Sarita Monjane Henrikson sarita@ruc.dk www.magenta.ruc.dk	PhD Candidate, Roskilde University – Department of Culture and Identity Denmark	Language in Education Planning and Policy, Bilingual/Multilingual Education
Dr. Christina Higgins	Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa United States	Sociolinguistics of multilingualism in East Africa: Linguistic and cultural hybridity in Swahili and English discourse; globalization and language use; crosscultural communication in HIV/AIDS education.
Dr. Hizzaya Hissani	UPLIFT Uganda	Adult Literacy Methodology
Patience Afrakoma Hmensa p.a.hmensa@open.ac.uk www.open.ac.uk	Student of the Open University, Lecturer at the University of Ghana	Language use in advertising, in general media, in second-language situations and in technologically mediated communication; multilingualism & linguistic landscapes
Dr. John Holmes www.education.leeds.ac.uk	School of Education, University of Leeds United Kingdom	Mother tongue literacy, postcolonial language teaching methodologies, community based education.

I		Research Interests
Anette Islei annetteislei@gmail.com	Visiting Lecturer, Department of Education, Mountains of the Moon University Uganda	Development of language education in Uganda
Unyierie Idem uidem@hcc.edu	Department of Language Studies, Holyoke Community College USA	Applied linguistics, second language acquisition, ESL reading and Writing, bi/multilingualism, language planning and policy, orthogragraphy writing, African languages development and maintenance.

J		Research Interests
Abudulai Jakalia jabudulai@yahoo.comwww.uew.edu.gh	Department of English Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana	Children's literacy, reading habits formation, early childhood literacy and language methodology
Dr. Dudu Jankie jankied@mopipi.ub.bw	Department of Languages & Social Sciences Education, Faculty of Education University of Botswana, Botswana	Language, literacy and literature education, postcolonial and culturally relevant/appropriate pedagogical approaches, multicultural teacher education, comparative education, as well as curriculum and policy issues.
Prof. Hilary Janks	Applied English Language Studies, School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Critical literacy, language and literacy education, postgraduate pedagogy, language policy
Ms. Dora Johnson	Center for Applied Linguistics United States	Issues of access in language and education, in the U.S., Africa and Asia; Language policy
Ms. Shelley Jones	Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia Canada	Gender, education, literacy and international development; global education
Kasper Juffermans kasper.juffermans@gmail.com	Post Doctorate, School of Humanities,Tilburg University	I worked on literacy and multilingualism ('local languaging') in The Gambia and am broadly interested in language and literacy ideologies, education and identity in Africa and Europe.

K		Research Interests
Ms. Namugenyi Deborah Kaggwa www.kyu.ac.ug	Kyambogo University	Home language and its role in the development of literacy skills in young bilinguals
Dr. Doris Muhwezi Kakuru www.ss.mak.ac.ug	Department of Sociology, Makerere University Uganda	Gender and education; children affected and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS
Timothée Mukash Kalel, Professor mukash_kalel@yahoo.fr	University of Kinshasa, Departement of letters and african civilisations DR Congo	syntactic description et lexicology; contrastive analysis French-Bantu languages.
Dr. Seraphin Kamdem jskamdem@soas.ac.uk	Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Languages and Cultures of Africa, School of Oriental and African studies (SOAS), University of London United Kingdom and Cameroon	Applied Linguistics, Bilingual education, Adult literacy, African languages, Language policy and planning, Grassroots community development, Language learning, Teacher training, Sociolinguistics.
Prof. Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu	Department of English, Howard University United States	Language policy and planning, language and identity, codeswitching, World Englishes, African Linguistics.
Gregory Kamwendo www.ub.bw	Department of Languages & Social Sciences Education, University of Botswana, Botswana	Linguistics (mainly language teaching and learning); language planning and language policy.
Dr. Daniel Kasule kasuled@mopipi.ub.bw www.ub.bw	Department of Primary Education, University of Botswana, Botswana	Language in education; Verbal interaction in L2 classrooms; Learning through a second language; Literacies.
Jenny Katz jenny@molteno.co.za www.molteno.co.za	Research and Development, Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy, South Africa	The analysis of first language acquisition of indigenous South African languages by children and establishing a connection to these children’s emergent reading skills and strategies.
Deo Kawalya http://chuss.mak.ac.ug/schools/sllc	Assistant Lecturer, Linguistics, ELS & CSK at Makerere University	Research on lexicography and grammar. I have worked on a number of dictionaries especially in my mother tongue Luganda.
Ms. Elspeth Kempe	Department of Applied English Language Studies, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa	Ways of helping students form communities of practice within their learning and teaching contexts, as an aid towards building empowered identities.
Dr. Maureen Kendrick maureen.kendrick@ubc.ca www.lled.educ.ubc.ca	Language and Literacy Education Department, University of British Columbia Canada	Literacy as a social practice; multimodality and ethnography.
Dr. Caroline Kerfoot ckerfoot@uwc.ac.za	Language Education Dept., University of the Western Cape South Africa	Multilingualism and identities; language and literacy education in bi-/multilingual contexts; academic literacy; educational applications of systemic functional (Hallidayan) linguistics; literacy and development.
Abdellah Khaloub abkhaloub@gmail.com	Specialist in Literacy, The Directorate of the Fight Against Illiteracy, Ministry of National Education, Morocco	Training of trainers in literacy; Planning literacy programs linked to local development; Literacy and empowerment; literacy and competency approach; literacy and awareness.
Mr. Swallows Mbuyiselo Henning Khume swallowkhume@gmail.com	HOD of History and IT at Fezeka High School, South Africa
Ulla Kite ulla.kite@googlemail.com www.dulwich.org.uk	M.A FIL.FRSA, Department of Modern Languages, Dulwich College, United Kingdom	On International Committee with Rotary Club London, researching literacy in Africa, countries most in need. Distribution of dictionaries in connection with "The Dictionary 4 Life Project"
Rudy Klaas rudy_klaas@sil.org	Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) Senegal	local language literacy
Dr. Toyin Kolawole toyin_kolawole@yahoo.com www.oauife.edu.ng	Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria	My research interests cut across a number of thematic areas in Development Studies, including local knowledge in agriculture, rural employment promotion, adult literacy and community development.
Mr. John Kole jkole2002@yahoo.com	Department of Educational Studies, La Trobe University Australia	Curriculum differentiation, Pedagogy, student learning needs, international education, and counselling.
Dr. Katalin Egri Ku-Mesu kekm500@york.ac.uk www.adamsmithcollege.ac.uk	Department of Educational Studies, University of York, Adam Smith College United Kingdom	The African literary ecosystem, reading for pleasure in Africa, censorship and publishing in Africa, multilingualism, cross-cultural communication, English language teaching/teacher training
Sarah Mirembe Kyankya sarahkyankya@yahoo.com	Editor, National Curriculum Development Centre	Writing children's story books that sell. How to interest the children in reading ... how to create a reading culture in a poor society
Dr. Robinah Kyeyune robinah.kyeyune@yahoo.co.uk	Department of Humanities and Language Education, School of Education at Makerere University, Uganda	literacy development, language education policy, language curriculum development, second language teaching and materials developmnent, language teacher education and development
Dr. Clement Olusegun Olaniran Kolawole kocycool57@yahoo.com www.ui.edu.ng	Teacher Education Dept., University of Ibadan, Nigeria (on sabbatical at University of Education, Winneba, Ghana)	English language/bilingual education, curriculum & instruction and literacy promotion among elementary/secondary students and out-of-school adolescents in Nigeria.

L		Research Interests
Sandra Land land@ukzn.ac.za www.cae.ukzn.ac.za	Department of Education, Centre for Adult Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	Adult literacy, particularly in Zulu, family literacy, language use in Southern Africa
Keabetswe Lekopanye keabetswe.lekopanye@nwu.ac.za www.nwu.ac.za	Junior Lecturer, Center for Academic and Profession Language Practice, North West University, South Africa	Applied linguistics; Academic Literacy.
Dr. Lia Litosseliti l.litosseliti@city.ac.uk www.city.ac.uk	Department of Language and Communication Science, City University, United Kingdom	Gender, Language and Discourse (including in African contexts); Research methodologies (especially focus groups).
Prof. Alison Love am.love@nul.ls www.nul.ls	Department of English, National University of Lesotho, Lesotho	Discourse analysis in political and institutional discourse in Southern Africa, discourse of academic disciplines, pragmatics.

M		Research Interests
Prof. Sinfree Makoni sbm12@psu.edu	Department of Applied Linguistics and African and African American Studies, The College of Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University, United States	Gerontology, urban multilingualism, identities, popular culture and music
Jaqueline Marshall jackie_marshall@sil.org	SIL, Literacy and Education Coordinator	literacy, multilingual education, literacy materials development, language policy, African languages
Ms. Evelyn Markwei dedeiaf@yahoo.co.uk www.slais.ubc.ca	School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada	The role of information in poverty alleviation among women in rural and deprived urban communities in Ghana; their information needs, information seeking behaviour, sources of information, and problems encountered in accessing information for poverty alleviation.
Dr. Dawn Marley d.marley@surrey.ac.uk www2.surrey.ac.uk>	Department of Languages and Translation Studies University of Surrey, United Kingdom	Language attitudes in Morocco, and role and status of French in Morocco.
Professor Marilyn Martin-Jones m.martinjones@bham.ac.uk www.education.bham.ac.uk	School of Education, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom	Bilingual discourse practices and multilingual literacy.
Mrs. Janet Marx janet@zenexfoundation.org.za	Applied English Language Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa	Systemic evaluation in reading in primary school children in multilingual contexts. I am interested in the notion of what constitutes a literate subject in today’s global knowledge economy.
Mr. Sekepe Daniel Matjila matjids@unisa.ac.za	Centre for Pan African Languages and Cultural Development, South Africa	Education and Multilingual and Multicultural Setting
Mrs. Lits’episo Matlosa lmatlosa@yahoo.co.uk www.web.wits.ac.za	Departments of Linguistics and Deaf Education, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa	Language policy and planning; Deaf education; gender, democracy and disability issues.
Dr. El Hadji Mansour Mboup elhadjimansour@yahoo.fr	Department of English, Lycée de Bargny, Senegal	Historiography and linguistics, particularly Sociolinguistics; Rastafarians of Jamaica particularly Marcus Garvey and Bob Marley.
Dr. Carolyn McKinney carolyn.mckinney@uct.ac.za http://web.uct.ac.za	School of Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa	Critical literacy and critical pedagogy; language and identity; language, race and gender in education.
Prof. Ulrike Meinhof uhm@soton.ac.uk	Centre for Transnational Studies, School of Modern Languages,University of Southampton, United Kingdom	Discourse and identity. Ethnographic research on transnational networks of migrants, especially musicians from African countries, in multicultural neighbourhoods across European borders , provincial regions and cities.
Ms. Penelope G. Moanakwena moanakwena@mopipi.ub.bw	Communication and Study Skills Unit, University of Botswana, Bostwana	Literacies for the information society and issues of closing the digital gap; implications for the classroom practice.
Francis Ibe Mogu Ph.D. francismogu@yahoo.com www.francismogu.com	Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, English & Literary Studies, University of Calabar, Nigeria	African Literature (Colonial, Postcolonial to the Present); African-American Literature in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries; Gender / Women’s Studies (Black Feminist Criticism); Caribbean Literature (C18th to C20th); English Literature (Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration to the Twentieth Century); Critical Theory (From Plato to Contemporary Times).
Abdulla H. Mohamed haishesa123@yahoo.co.uk www.suza.ac.tz	Dept of Education, The State University of Zanzibar, Tanzania	Language and Education (Problems encountered by students who use L2 as their medium of Learning and Assessment), Educational Quality and Effectiveness and Classroom Teaching and Learning
Jean Moore moorej@ukzn.ac.za	Faculty of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	Academic literacy development, particularly reading, especially in contexts where the language of instruction is not students’ primary language.
Tshepo Moroka tshepo.moroka@yahoo.com	Student, University of Botswana, Botswana	Language policy issues
Maarten Mous m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl www.hum.leiden.edu	Leiden University, African Languages and Cultures	Grammar, lexicon and verbal art of African languages, in particular Cushitic (Iraqw, Alagwa, Konso) and Bantu (Tunen, Ma'a/Mbugu, Pare, Swahili) and Seereer.
Dr Kizitus Mpoche kizitus@yahoo.com	(Senior Lecturer) Department of English, University of Yaounde Cameroon	Language Acquisition, Language Description, Language Education and Communication, Multilingual/Multicultural Issues.
Nomalanga Mpofu (PhD), Director - Academy of Teaching and Learning nomalanm@yahoo.com	Chinhoyi University of TechnologyChinhoyi University of Technology Zimbabwe	Shona grammar; Lexicography and lexicology; Cognitive linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Semantics; Issues in higher education.
Cyrus Kabucwa Murage murage@btkenya.org	Bible Translation & Literacy, Kenya	Development of literacy through mother tongue education programmes for adults.
Sarah Murray s.murray@ru.ac.za www.ru.ac.za/Education	Department of Education, Rhodes University South Africa	Initial literacy in bilingual contexts (i.e. first four years of schooling).
Dr. Abolaji Samuel Mustapha abolajimustapha@yahoo.co.uk www.lasunigeria.org	Dept. of English, Lagos State University, Nigeria	Sociolinguistics – language and gender, language variation and change, multilingualsim, language policy and planning, politeness & speech functions, pidgins and creoles, discourse; applied linguistics, language teaching (teaching ESL).
Dr. Margaret J. Muthwii mmuthwii@ubs-africa.org	Africa Area Translations Services, United Bible Societies	Language issue in African context as it interacts with society, education, development, literacy, policy and planning. African linguistics; multilingualism; text/Bible translation; Literacy and publishing in African languages.
Robert Munganda, Education Officer rmunganda@nied.edu.na	Ministry of Education, National Institute for Educational Development (NIED)Ministry of Education, National Institute for Educational Development (NIED)	Language policy in education, language teaching, language development, language attitudes and acquisition (L1&L2), literature (African), curriculum development and curriculum studies, educational research.
Emmanuel Muterere muterere2006@yahoo.com	Dept. of Rural Development, NOGIP-BIHARAMULO	Redressing the language barrier to knowledge transfer to semi-literate small-scale farmers
Sal Muthayan smuthayan@hotmail.com www.palama.gov.za	International Relations and Special Projects, Public Administration and Leadership Academy, South Africa	South-South partnerships using indigenous and participatory methodologies to build capacity in Africa and the South.
Harriet Mutonyi hmutonyi@yahoo.com	Centre for Cross Faculty Inquiry, University of British Columbia Canada	Adolescent health, HIV/AIDS and Education
Lydia Mwangi Injerius@yahoo.com www.opendoorsnigeria.org	Department of Languages, Open Doors for Special Learners, Uganda	The integration, and interplay, of reading and writing in the classroom and beyond.
Dr Hizzyz Hissani Mwani hhissani@yahoo.com	Uplift Uganda, Uganda	The impact of a significant and widespread literacy program for community development, for the individual and for local institutions; parameters defined as sufficient to meet Millennium Development Goals and applied in an African regional context, with use of African traditional communication and methodology.

N		Research Interests
Ms. Jacinta Ndambuki njacintah@yahoo.com www.web.wits.ac.za	English Language Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa	Applied Linguistics research with particular interest in Critical Discourse Analysis (gender and political discourse); academic literacy/writing.
Dr. Stephen Ndawula sndawula@kyu.ac.ug	Teacher Education Department, Kyambogo University www.kyu.ac.ug	Enhancing Literacy with Pedagogical ICT: the Case of Lower Primary Teachers in Uganda
Mr. Finex Ndhlovu fndh1@student.monash.edu www.monash.edu.au	Department of Linguistics, Monash University, Australia	Language policy and politics, language and power, minority languages and their maintenance (special focus on Southern Africa), language endangerment and language revitalization.
Denise Newfield denise.newfield@wits.ac.za www.web.wits.ac.za/WitsHome.htm	English Department, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa	Literature in education; multiliteracies and multimodality; contemporary youth poetry in Africa; poetry in Africa; curricular development; innovative pedagogies; working in contexts of disadvantage.
Willy Ngaka wngaka@yahoo.co.uk	School of Adult and Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Uganda	Intergenerational Literacy Learning, Lifelong learning, Language and Literacy Policy issues, and Literacies and capabilities.
Dr. Mtholeni N. Ngcobo ngcobmn@unisa.ac.za	Dept of Linguistics, University of South Africa, South Africa www.ngcobmn.yolasite.com	Language Policy and Planning, Corpus Linguistics, Language and ICTs, Literature, Sociolinguistics, Development and Policy Studies, African Politics and History, Critical, Cultural and Post-modern Theories.
Dr. Pamela Ngugi muhadiap@yahoo.com www.ku.ac.ke/	Kiswahili Dept., Kenyatta University, Kenya	Children' literature; reading habits; sociology of literature
Jacob Marriote Ngwaru mngwaru@yahoo.com www.ncll.org.uk	Institute of Education, National Centre for Language and Literacy, United Kingdom	Home and school literacy practices of children in countries where L1 is not the LoI; and school, child and parent partnership in those contexts.
Justina Atemajong Njika justinanjika@yahoo.com	PhD, Dept. of English, University of Yaounde I, Higher Teacher Training College, (ENS), Cameroon www.ens-cameroun.org/	language studies and related teaching methodologies and learning (ESL/EFL), Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Error Analysis, Research methodology, African linguistics.
Bonny Norton bonny.norton@ubc.ca www.lled.educ.ubc.ca	Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada	Identity and language learning, education and development, and critical literacy.
Chikwanka Nsama readzambia@readbeyondzambia.org www.readbeyondzambia.org	Founder & Team Leader, Read Beyond Zambia	scientific context-specific study on the link between adult literacy and children's literacy development; importance of environment in literacy skills development.
Richard Nzogi richard_nzogi@sil.org	Linguistics at SIL, Uganda	Applied phonological, morphophonemic, and morphological research, especially its application to design of practical orthographies for hitherto unwritten or inadequately written languages

O		Research Interests
Dr. Simeon Oziri Ogbonna soogbonna@yahoo.com	Independent Consultant, Nigeria	Language, literacy and learning; language policy; bilingual/biliteracy education; use of language in primary education; mother tongue education; literacy assessment.
O.J. Alfred Ogot ogotalfred@gmail.com	Tutor of English Language, Languages Department, Rubengera Teacher Training College Rwanda	ICT for Teaching and Learning; Language teaching and Learning; HIV/AIDS Prevention and care; Community Education and Training
Robert Kizito Ojok rkizito@ug.earo.crs.org	National Program Coordinator - Global Water Initiative Project, Water and Sanitation, Catholic Relief Services, Uganda	Community-centred development with optimal contributions locally focusing on water and sanitation as well as using rights-based approach.
Lone Elizabeth Olebile golebaof@uga.edu	PhD Student, Language and Literacy Department, University of Georgia (USA), Botswana and USA	Indigenous literacy, reading education, minority literacy, emergent literacy, and adolescent literacy.
Phillip Oketcho oketchophilip@yahoo.co.uk www.ncdc.go.ug	Secondary, Indigenous Languages Specialist at National Curriculum Development Centre	Indigenous African languages; corpus linguistics; literacy; lexicography; Grammar; phonetics/phonology; morphosyntax.
Dr. Tope Omoniyi t.omoniyi@ac.uk www.roehampton.ac.uk/arts/index.html	English Language & Linguistics, School of Arts, Roehampton University, London, United Kingdom	Languages in education, policy, literacy & development, sociology of language & religion, language & identity in transnational communities, African diaspora, and popular culture; Language issues in EU accession & identity.
Mr. George Ladaah Openjuru openjuru@yahoo.co.uk www.iace.mak.ac.ug	Institute of Adult and Continuing Education, Makerere University, Uganda	Rural communities literacy practices; development of adult literacy programmes for rural peoples; adult literacy education policies and rural communities uses of reading and writing in everyday life.
Dr. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa kopokuamankwa@gmail.com	Lecturer, Department of Publishing Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Ghana	Multilingualism and ELL; early and adolescent literacy; materials development and textbooks studies; discourse analysis; language in the media
Dr. Oyinloye Gabriel Oludele olugaby33@yahoo.com	Department of Curriculum Studies, University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria	Preperation of pre-service teachers at the university level; capacity building for primary and secodary schools teachers; English language and mother tongue.

P		Research Interests
Dr. Kate Parry kateparry@earthlink.net www.hunter.cuny.edu/~english/	Department of English at Hunter College, City University of New York, United States	Community libraries, culture and literacy, reading, Uganda, English language learning.
Mary Pearce mary_pearce@sil.org	Africa Linguistics Coordinator (SIL) and Associate International Linguistics Coordinator at SIL International	Phonology, tone, orthography, vowel harmony, metrical rhythm, Chadic languages, Kera (Chadic), African linguistics, language description, orthography development, sociolinguistics, African linguistics training courses
Dr. Kristen Perry www.cpls.educ.ubc.ca	Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Kentucky, United States	Literacy development and culture, particularly in African communities; home and community practices of literacy; immigrant and refugee children; literacy brokering; family literacy
Kathryn Phillip kathwiz2@gmail.com	Academic Librarian University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria	Reference Information dissemination with focus on literacy advocacy and education to non- academic communities.
Benjamin Piper bpiper@rti.org www.rti.org	Senior Education Research Analyst, Education Policy Systems, RTI International, Ethiopia	Intersection of early literacy, language policy and literacy interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Elizabeth Platt ejplat@earthlink.net www.coe.fsu.edu/ste/	Dept. Middle & Secondary Education, Florida State University, United States	Early second language learning processes, also language & education policy w/r/t English language learners in Florida
Kwesi Kwaa Prah kkprah@casas.co.za	The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS)www.casas.co.za , South Africa	Harmonization and Standardization of African Languages Orthographies
Margie Probyn m.probyn@ru.ac.za www.ru.ac.za/isea	Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University South Africa	Language and learning in multilingual contexts; language in education policy and practice; language and science learning; teacher education and development; English additional language teaching and learning.

R		Research Interests
Prof. Pauline Rea-Dickins pauline.rea-dickins@aku.edu	Visiting Professor, University of Bristol, Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development - Eastern Africa United Kingdom	language testing and assessment, in particular classroom-based assessment, ethical assessment practice and social justice in assessment, medium of instruction and scholastic achievement, researching language classrooms, language programme evaluation
Ms. Yvonne Reed yvonne.reed@wits.ac.za www.web.wits.ac.za	Applied English Language Studies, School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa	Materials development for distance education and for language textbooks for schools; assessment issues in language and literacy education; the construction of subject English in schools
Ms. JeDene Reeder jreeder@sfu.ca www.sil.org/literacy	SIL International, United States	Adult literacy in minority languages; sociolinguistics; orthography development (newly written languages); organizational leadership and development
Prof. Stanley Ridge ridge@adept.co.za www.uwc.ac.za	Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), University of the Western Cape, South Africa	Discourse studies of contemporary and historical texts, language policy and planning, actual use of languages in multilingual situations.
Dr. Elaine Ridge er@sun.ac.za	Curriculum Studies, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa	Teacher Education relating to EFL in Africa; language acquisition of English in EFL contexts; extensive reading; South African children’s literature
Dave Roberts rbrdvd@gmail.com www.llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr	Language, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire, INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales), Togo	Tone orthography of African languages, especially Kabiye (Gur, Togo).
Prof. Theresa Rogers teresa.rogers@ubc.ca www.lled.educ.ubc.ca	Dept. of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada	Adolescent/Secondary literacy practices
Tove Rosendal, PhD, Senior lecturer/researcher tove.rosendal@african.gu.se	University of Gothernburg, Department of Languages and Literatures	Sociolinguistics, - especially language policy, multilingual management, language choice and language change.
Prof. Casmir Rubagumya crubagumya@udsm.ac.tz www.udsm.ac.tz	Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Language in education in Africa; language planning and language policy in multilingual societies; literacy development; language and power.

S		Research Interests
Dr. Oladipo Salami lsalami@oaulife.edu.ng diposalami@yahoo.com www.oauife.edu.ng	Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife institution, Nigeria	Language variation and change, bi/multilingualism, language contact, language policy, language in/and education and language and identity.
Beth Lewis Samuelson blsamuel@indiana.edu www.education.indiana.edu	Assistant Professor W.W. Wright School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington – Literacy, Culture and Language Education (LCLE), USA	Language policy and planning; Teaching English as a foreign or international language; Central and East Africa; Rwanda.
Ms. Leila Schroeder leila@schroeder@sil.org www.sil.org	SIL Africa Area, United States	Linguistics applied to reading methodologies (including reading transition), and multilingual education (including curriculum development, teacher training, 2nd language acquisition)in primary schools.
Colleen Shaughnessy colleenas@gmail.com	PhD Candidate, Adult Education and Comparative and International Education, Pennsylvania State University	Literacies in non-schooled adult women in refugee camps and/or sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Jo Shoba shobajo@edgehill.ac.uk www.edgehill.ac.uk	Department of English and History, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom	Language in education in a number of African societies, including policy issues and classroom discourse.
Mr. Zachary Simpson zsimpson@uj.ac.za www.uj.ac.za/Pages/VariationRoot.aspx	Learning Centre, University of Johannesburg, South Africa	Academic literacy/ies, writing, writing centres, writing and identity, plagiarism.
Suzanne Smythe sksmythe@sfu.ca www.educ.sfu.ca	Lecturer: Literacy/Adult Education, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, CANADA	Adult and community literacy, critical and multimodal literacies, home-school relations, schooling and inequality
Konosoang Sobane, PhD Candidate , msobane@gmail.com	Stellenbosch University, Department of General Linguistics South Africa	Analysis of language discordant provider patient interactions in HIV/AIDS treatment centres
Connie Ssebbunga deaneduc@educ.mak.ac.ug www.mak.ac.ug	Masembe School of Education, Makerere University, Department of Language Education, Uganda	Literacy education, reading education, gender and education, ICT in education, discourse analysis, medium of instruction.
Medadi Erisa Ssentanda ssentandam@yahoo.com.sg	Makerere University, Department: African Languages	Development of Mother-tongue education; Language documentation and Pragmatics
Lynn Stefano stefanola@telkomsa.net	Family Literacy Project, Director www.familyliteracyproject.co.za	family literacy, adult literacy, early literacy and learning, bilingual learning,
Sue Starfield s.starfield@unsw.edu.au /www.lc.unsw.edu.au	The Learning Centre and Department of Linguistics, University of New South Wales Australia	Thesis and dissertation writing; academic literacy; writing and identity; postgraduate pedagogy; critical pedagogy; language policy in higher education.
Dr. Tajudeen Y. Surakat suray44@yahoo.com	Dept of English & Literary Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria	General / Theoretical Linguistics, Pedolinguistics or Child Language Studies, TESOL, Varieties of English, Applied Linguistics / Translation Studies
Arieh (Ari) Sherris, PhD Arieh.Sherris@gmail.com	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia	SLA; linguistic landscape; language, culture, and identity.

T		Research Interests
Esso-Molla Tchabounono tchamola2001@yahoo.fr	Hekima College, Kenya	Education (French Teaching), translation, and literacy
Prof. Toussaint Yaovi Tchitchi tchitchitoussaint@yahoo.fr	Département des Sciences du Langage et de la Communication, Faculté des Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines, Université d’Abomey-Calavi République du Bénin
Dr. Juliet Tembe	Department of Languages, Literature and Linguistics – Islamic University in Uganda Uganda	Dr. Tembe completed her B.A and M.Ed. degrees at Makerere University (Uganda) specializing in English, Education, and TESOL, and in 2008 she completed her PhD in TESL at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She has taught at secondary school, national teacher training colleges, and at the university level. Her research interests include: second language teaching; language policy and planning; bi-/multi-lingual literacy; and minority language education, and she has published her research in such journals as TESOL Quarterly and Canadian Modern Language Review. As a member of the Association of World Education (Uganda Chapter), she has been involved in research on conflict management among pastoral communities in North eastern Uganda. Her current research is in literacy and gender, as well as the use of ICTs for teacher development. She is the current Chair of the largest non-governmental HIV/AIDS service organization in Uganda and Africa, The AIDS Support Organization (TASO),  and a member of the Uganda AIDS Commission.
Lucia Thesen www.ldg.uct.ac.za	Language Development Group, Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town, South Africa	Academic literacies and multimodality in different sites, including the first year lecture, and postgraduate experience.
Ms. Carol Thomson thomsonc@ukzn.ac.za	School of Education and Development, Faculty of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	The broad domain of the New Literacy Studies and ensuing theoretical developments i.e. literacy/ies, bilingualism, power; and phenomenological research in the field of applied and critical linguistics.
Jonathan Thurston jonathanthurston@gmail.com www.makingbooksinghana.org	President of I.S.A.B.T. and Professor of Creative Art and Technology at Bloomfield College  Dept of Creative Art and Technology, The International School of Art, Business, and Technology, Bloomfield College	We assist with education on Ghana, West Africa. We have shipped books and computers to schools, run in-country educational bookmaking programs, and are working on creating educational community centers in West Africa.
Mr. Mushakavanhu Tinashe tinsmush@yahoo.com	PhD student, School of English, University of Kent Zimbabwe	Post-colonial writings, especially the concepts of Diaspora, creativity and politics in African literature with current research on the Zimbabwean short story and the politics of nationhood.
Dr. Barbara Trudell www.sil.org	Director of Academic Affairs, SIL International Africa Area, SIL International, United States	Language policy in Africa, language and literacy, community action in local language development, mulilingual education, language and education, language and development.
Vera Williams Tetteh verawilliams.tetteh@gmail.com www.ameprc.mq.edu.au	PhD Candidate, Linguistics Dept., Macquarie University	Discourse-based studies of immigrant groups, SLL and settlement issues including gender; Social exclusion/inclusion of linguistic and visible minority immigrant groups; African diasporas; Intercultural communication.

U		Research Interests
Prof. Joanne Umolu opendoorsng@yahoo.com www.opendoorsnigeria.org	Open Doors Special Education Centre, Open Doors for Special Learners, Nigeria	Developmental reading for individuals with intellectual disabilities; mother tongue literacy instruction and literature based instruction with an emphasis on children as authors.

V		Research Interests
Dr. Frans C. Verhagen addressgaia1@rcn.com www.globalepe.org	Earth and Peace Education Associates International (EPE), United States	Sustainability usage in development work, sustainable communities research in rural areas in West Africa, sustainable aviation and surface transportation issues.
Leticia Vicente-Rasomalalaletivicra@hotmail.com	Research group COLE ALLENCAM (Language Acquisition from Multilingual Catalonia), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain	eacher’s feedback and learner output in foreign language classrooms; Immersion; Multilingual and multicultural education; Content based instruction; Non-verbal behaviours in Classroom Discourse; Social Interactionist and Sociocultural theories of SLA; Video recording in Ethnographic SLA research; Conversational Analysis
Lilian Vikiru lillian.vikiru@aku.edu	Aga Khan University, institute for Educational Development Institute for Educational Development, East Africa Website: ss-iedea@aku.edu	Language learning and teaching in multilingual contexts; early years literacy; multlingualism in education; assessment for student learning.

W		Research Interest
Jude Walker judekiwimoose@gmail.com	Student/Researcher Education Studies, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia	Curriculum development in digital literacy projects in Eastern Africa, especially applied to adult literacy and teacher education
Dr. Patricia Watson trish@freethinkers.co.za	Research Fellow University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa	Linguistic Human Rights; Youth, culture, media and development; Mathematics, Science and Language literacy; Comics, popular culture and visual literacy; Memory, memorialisation and heritage; History and citizenship education
Meike Wernicke meike@mwernicke.ca www.mwernicke.ca	Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia, Canada	Multilingualism, language teacher education, discourse analysis, open access, open education
Professor Rosemary Wildsmith wildsmithr@ukzn.ac.za	Cromarty Language, Literature & Linguistics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	Multilingualism, language acquisition, language and concept literacy, Translation, African Language Development.
Eddie Williams else03@bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics	Institution and Department: Bangor University, Wales, School of Linguistics and English Language Wales, UK	Language policy, literacy and development in Africa; Reading in a first and second languages in African educational contexts; “Voice” and rural communities in Africa.
Dr. Geoff Williams geoff.williams@ubc.ca	Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia Canada	Educational linguistics; early child literacy development; early child language development; social class effects on educational access; systemic functional (Hallidayan) linguistic theory.
John Willinsky john.willinsky@ubc.ca	School of Education, Stanford University USA	New ways of supporting and strengthening scholarly publishing in Africa by developing and conducting research around open source software systems that enable journals to be part of a global and public knowledge exchange.
Dr. Hirut Woldemariamm  hirutwol@aau.edu.et www.ethioworld.com	Department of Linguistics, Institution of Language Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia	Morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, language and education, language documentation

Y		Research Interests
Dr. Eva Yerende evagerente@hotmail.com	University of Kankan, Guinea	Bilingual/Multilingual Education, Comparative International Education, Anthropology and Education, West Africa; Central America; US; Greece

Z		Resarch Interests
Jane Zuengler zuengler@wisc.edu www.english.wisc.edu	Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison USA	Ethnographic microanalysis of discourse; critical perspectives on language acquisition and use; issues in English spread.