Ganiu Bamgbose

The Mother (Murdered) Tongues: Perspectives on Translingual Practices in English-Only Teaching and Learning among ‘Non-Native Monolingual’ Speakers of English

Ganiu, a black Nigeria man sitting and posing for a picture
Dr. Ganiu Bamgbose is a lecturer in the Department of English, Lagos State University. He holds a PhD in English with a specialization in humor studies The hallmark of his scholarship is humor as a tool for social re-engineering. He has published in both local and international journals. His works have appeared in journals such as the European Journal of Humor Research, Israeli Journal of Humor, Argentinian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Linguistik Online, Legon Journal of Humanities, Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies, among others. He has published two books and co-edited one. He currently teaches and researches in aspects of applied linguistics such as pragmatics, (critical) discourse analysis, stylistics, sociolinguistics, and the English language in Nigeria. In addition to his two books on grammar, Ganiu has published over a hundred newspaper articles on the use of English language in Nigeria, giving him great insight into the challenges experienced by the users of the language for academic purposes and as the language of academic writing.