BABALOLA Emmanuel Taiwo Oladipupo
Email address(es): etobaba@oauife.edu.ng
Office Address: Room 209, Humanities Block Three, Department of English, Faculty of Arts
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0211-2671
Academic Qualifications: PhD in English: Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 2005
MA in English: Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1999
BA (Ed) in English: Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1993
N.C.E. (English/Yoruba): Oyo (Now Osun) State College of
Education, Ilesa, 1990
Areas of Specialization: Grammar, Contemporary English Usage, Applied Linguistics
Title of M.A. Thesis: Babalola, E, T. 1999. The Misuse of the Auxiliary Verbs in the Written
English Texts of Senior Secondary Schools Two Students in
Three Local Government Areas of Oyo State,Nigeria, an
unpublished Master’s of Arts Disertation, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Babalola, E.T. 2005. The Nominal Group Modifier and Qualifier
Structures in some American and Nigerian English-Medium Magazines, an unpublished Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Fellowships (If any): Nil
Research Grants (If any): Nil
Ongoing Current Research:
List of Publications:
(a) Authored Book:
- Babalola, E. T. (2009) Nominal Group in Standard Nigerian and
American English: A Systemic Linguistics Description, Saarbrucken,
Deutschland: Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG 194 pgs.
(b) Edited Books
- Babalola, E. T. (Ed.) (2010) Use of English for University Students.
Ibadan: Osun State University, UniOsun Textbook Series One.
iii. Babalola E. T. and Tunji Azeez (eds.) (2012) Critical Perspectives
on Language, Literature and Communication Studies: Festschrift
in Honour of Siyan Oyeweso, Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo
University Press.
- Babalola, E. T. and ‘Yomi Okunowo (2018) (eds.) Essentials of
English Studies for Tertiary Institutions, Ijebu-Ode: Tai Solarin
University of Education Press.
- Ayoola, K., E. T. Babalola and J.O. Faleye (2024) Expanding the
Scope of English for Specific Purposes: Digital Career Opportunities
for English Graduates. Ile-Ife: New Nation Communication Services.
Contributions to Books:
- vi. Babalola, E.T. 2003. ‘English for Specific Purposes: An
Overview’ in Oyeleye, ‘Lekan and Olateju, Moji (2003) (eds.)
Readings in Language and Literature, (1st Edition), Ile-Ife:
Obafemi Awolowo University Press, pp.137-151.
vii, Babalola, E.T. 2005. ‘The Grammar of Paragraphs and the
Mechanics of Good Written English in Oyeleye, ‘Lekan and
Olateju, Moji (eds.) Perspectives on Language and Literature.
Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press, pp. 269-284.
viii. Babalola, E. T. (2006a). ‘The English Adjectival Group: System,
Structure and Functions’ in Adeleke Fakoya (ed.) An
Encylopaedia of the Arts, Lagos: Faculty of Arts, Lagos State
University, pp. 791 – 799.
- Babalola, E.T. (2006b). ‘The Place of English in the Contemporary
History of Nigeria’ in Alao A. (ed.) The Nigerian
State: Language of its Politics, Essays in Honour of
Stephen Oladipo Arifalo, Nigeria, Rex Charles & Collins
Publishers, pp. 20 – 28.
- Babalola, E. T. (2007a). ‘Structural and Syntactic Differences in
the Selected Verses of three Versions of the Holy Bible’, in
Styles in Religious Communication in Nigeria (eds.) Odebunmi,
A and Babajide, A., Munchen: Lincom Europa (Lincom
Studies in Communication, Vol. 1, ISBN 978 3 89586 496, pp
144 – 170.
- Babalola E. T. (2007b) ‘The Relevance of Grammatical Theories
to English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in a Second language
Environment’ In Ozo-mekuri Ndimele (ed) Nigerian
Languages, Literatures, Culture and Reforms: A Festschrift for
Ayo Bamgbose, Port-Harcourt: Linguistic Association of
Nigeria, pp. 397 – 415.
xii. Babalola, E. T. (2009) “Communicative Language Teaching
and English Language Teaching in Nigeria” in: Manish A.
Vyas and Yogesh L. Patel (eds.) Teaching English as a Second
Language: A New Pedagogy for a New Century, New Delhi:
Orient Longman India, pp. 119-133.
xiii. Babalola, E. T. (2009) ‘A Systemic Description of the English
Nominal Group’ in Adika G. S. K., Fabunmi, F. A. And
Salawu, A. S. (eds.) Current Perspectives in Phono-Syntax and
Dialectology, Winneba, Ghana: Department of Gur-Gonja,
Faculty of Languages, University of Education, Winneba,
- 388 – 417.
xiv. Babalola, E. T. (2010) ‘Punctuation Usage and the Mechanics
of Good Written English’ in Babalola, E. T. (Ed.) (2010) Use
of English for University Students. Ibadan: Osun State
University, UniOsun Textbook Series One, pp. 174 – 193.
- Babalola, E. T. and Onanuga P. A. (2011) ‘Atrophization of
Minority Languages:Indigenous Folktales to the Rescue’, in
Akande, A. and Odebunmi, A. (eds.) The Sociology of English
in Nigeria, Germany: Lambert Academic publication, pp. 298 –
325.
xvi Babalola, E. T. and Rotimi Taiwo (2012) ‘Code-Switching in
Contemporary Nigeria Hip-hop Music’ in Babalola E. T. and
Tunji Azeez (eds.) Critical Perspectives on Language,
Literature and Communication Studies: Festschrift in Honour
of Siyan Oyeweso, Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University
Press, pp. 55 – 68.
xvii. Babalola, E. T. (2012) ‘Tense and Tense Sequences in
English’ in Adegbite, Wale, Adekoya, Segun and Adegoju,
Adeyemi (eds) Use of English: A Manual on Communicative
Skills for Tertiary Institutions, Ile-Ife: Department of English,
OAU, pp 158 – 166.
xviii. Babalola, E. T. and Onanuga Paul A. (2016) Finding their
Feet: Digital Immigrants in a ‘Natives’ Generation –
Contrasting the Use of SMS and IM in Everyday
Communication, in Rotimi Taiwo and Tunde Opeibi (eds.)
The Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement, New York,
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
xix. Babalola, E. T. (2018) Forming the Sentence in English:
Morphemes and Words. In Babalola, E. T. and ‘Yomi
Okunowo’s (eds.) Essentials of English Studies for Tertiary
Institutions. Ijebu-Ode: Department of English, Tai Solarin
University of Education.
- Babalola, E. T. and Onyeakazi, P. (2018) Verbs, Tense, and
Tense Sequences. In Babalola, E. T. and ‘Yomi Okunowo’s
(eds.) Essentials of English Studies for Tertiary Institutions.
Ijebu-Ode: Department of English, Tai Solarin University of
Education.
xxi. Daramola, O. M.A., Adeniyi, K., Babalola, E. T., and
Ademilokun, M. (2020). Migration: Identity Construction and
Reconstruction, Ile-Ife: Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo
University.
Published Articles
For each article, please indicate as follows in chronological order with the oldest ones coming first: Name(s) of Author(s), Year of publications; names of authors should appear in the order in which they are listed in the publication
xxii. Babalola E.T. (1999) ‘The Misuse of the Auxiliary Verbs in
the Essays of some Senior Secondary School Pupils in Oyo
State.’ Papers in English and Linguistics, Vol. 4, Department
of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, pp.65-72.
xxiii. Babalola E.T. (2002a) ‘The Politics of Language of
Instruction in Nigerian Schools’. Onukaogu, C.E. et al (ed)
Literacy and Reading in Nigeria, Vol. 9, No.1 Ile-Ife,
Reading Association of Nigeria, Pp. 207- 214.
xxiv. Babalola, E.T. (2002b) ‘The Development of Nigerian
Languages and Cultures: The Role of the Local
Government’. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An
International Review of English Studies, Vol. 37, pp. 161
– 171. Poland
xxv. Babalola, E.T. and Akande, A.T. (2002) ‘Some Linguistic
Problems of Learners of English in Nigeria’. ES: Revisita
De Filologia Inglesa, No.24, pp. 245-257. Spain
xxvi. Babalola, E.T. (2002c) ‘Newspapers as Instruments for
Building Literate Communities: The Nigerian Experience.
Nordic Journal of African Studies, Vol.11, No.3, pp.403-
- Finland
xxvii. Babalola, E.T. and Babalola, C. A. (2004) ‘The Place of
Functional Communication in Self-Help Development
Projects among Adults in Osun State, Nigeria (1985-
1999)’ Nordic Journal of African Studies, volume 13,
Number 3, pp.319-342. Finland
xxviii. Babalola, E.T. (2005) “Approaching Poetry through
Linguistics: A Linguistic Stylistic Analysis of ‘The Hand
That Signed the Paper”, Kui Xing: The Journal of
Asian/Diaspora and Aboriginal Literature, China (Online
Journal, pp. 1-11).
xxix. Babalola E. T. (2007) ‘The Challenges of English Language
Teaching in the Era of Information Technology: The Case
Study of an English as a Second Language Environment’ in
Geolinguistics: Journal of the American Society of
Geolinguistics Vol. 33, pp. 23 – 34. United States of America
xxx. Adegbite Wale and Babalola, E.T. (2008) ‘Sociological
Dimensions of Bilingual Communication in Yoruba and
English in a Cosmopolitan City: A Case Study of Ibadanland’
in GLOSSA: An Ambilingual Multidisciplinary Journal (ISSN
1931 – 7778), Puerto Rico, US.
http://bibliotecavirtualut.suagm.edu/GLOSSA2/index.html
xxxi. Daramola, Yomi, Babalola, E. T. and Olatunji Myke (2011) ‘Bi
and Tri-lingualism: A Reflection of Code-Mixing and Switching
in Contemporary Yoruba Christian Gospel and Islamized Music’
in Journal of Performing Arts, Publication of the School of
Performing Arts, University of Legon, Accra, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp.
148 – 166.
xxxii. Babalola, E. T. (2013) ‘Reference and Appositive Repetition in
Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter,’ in Global Journal of Human
Social Sciences: G Linguistics and Education, USA, Volume
13, Issue 5, Version 1.0. www.GlobalJournals.org
xxxiii. Olanrewaju E. O. and Babalola E. T. (2016) Gendered English
Usage in Nigerian Newspapers, in British Journal of English
Linguistics, Vol. 4 No. 1. United Kingdom
xxxiv. Babalola, E. T. and Adeniyi, S. T. (2019). Analysis of Theticals
in the Book of Exodus of New International Version of the
English Bible, in Work in Progress, No 18. A publication of
Department of English and Literary Studies, Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria, Nigeria.
xxxv. Adewuya, A. O. and Babalola, E. T. (2018). Mapping
Pragma-Sociolinguistic Markers of Identity in Contemporary
Nigerian Hip-Hop Music in ODU: A Journal of West African
Studies, No 47, 2018, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
xxxvi. Babalola, E. T. (2019) What is Correct English?
Communicability, Grammaticality, Acceptability, and Elegance
in University of Ibadan English Language Lecture Series.
xxxviii. Babalola, E.T. and T. A. Sijuade (2023) A morphosyntactic
analysis of some official correspondence of the Lagos State
government, Nigeria in Journal of English Scholars’ Association of
Nigeria. Vol. 25, No 4.
xxxviii. Babalola, E. T. (2024). Plagiarism and other Unethical Practices
in Academic Writing in Olateju, M. et al (Eds.) Research Methods
in English Linguistics and Literary Studies: A Practical Approach.
Bookminds.
xxxix. Adewuya, A. O. and E.T. Babalola (2024) Detecting and curbing the proliferation of fake news on social media in Ayoola, K., Babalola E.T. and Faleye J.O. (eds.) Expanding the Scope of English for Specific Purposes: Digital Career Opportunities for English Graduates. Ile-Ife: New Nation Communication Services.
xxxx. Oso, M.O. and E.T. Babalola (2025). Patterns of Code Alternation in Nigerian Advertisement Jingles on Radio and Youtube. In International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS.)
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.47772/IJRISS.2024.803464S
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