Aymerou Mbaye

Cheikh Anta Diop University

PhD Oklahoma State University (2001)
TESL/Linguistics

"I have found that the focus of the TESL-Linguistics program at OSU on ESL/EFL scholarship and academics, the rigor of the courses, the support from the instructors, the extensive readings, and the access to library resources prepared me for what I am doing now." ~Aymerou Mbaye , May 2006

Recent Publications

"Barriers in Cross-linguistic Literacy: Francophone Students in English Writing Classes." Liens Nouvelle Série, Revue Internationale Francophone no. 8, Décembre 2005.

"International postdoc challenges in research labs: Language, situated literacy, and 'Big D' discourse" (with U. Connor). In I. Backlund, U. Borestam, U. M. Martala et al. (eds.)(2005), Text at work: Essays in honor of Britt-Louise Gunnarsson. Uppsala University, pp. 280-288.

"Discourse approaches to writing assessment" (with U. Connor). Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2002/22, 263-278.

"An example of pedagogic innovation management: The case of the ELT project for the quality of EFL in middle and secondary schools in Senegal." In Across the West African divide: Developing an integrated policy on English language teaching in anglophone, francophone, and lusophone countries. Proceedings of 2nd West African ELT Conference, Mbour, Senegal, December 1995.

Honors & Offices

West African Research Association (WARA) Residency Fellowship (to The University of North Florida)
Standing Committee on International Concerns, National Council of Teacher of English
Steering Committee, American Association for Applied Corpus Linguistics

Recent Conference Presentations

"Cross-cultural issues of academic literacy in US labs." AAAL in Salt-Lake City ( March 2002).

"Barriers in cross-linguistic literacy." Pan-African Conference on Reading for All, Kampala, Uganda (August 2003).

"Using an illiterate language for literate language functions." 1st ICIC Conference on Written Discourse and Contrastive Rhetoric, and at other local professional meetings.

Current Research

My research interests have expanded from the original contrastive rhetoric and second language writing of my dissertation to issues of academic and professional literacy, literacy-orality connection, and the adaptation of traditional oral languages to modernity.