BAMIBGADE Waheed Adeyimika

Email address(es): wabamigbade@oauife.edu.ng, abufuruqan2@gmail.com

Office Address: Room 108D, Humanities Block 2

Academic Qualifications: BA (English Studies), MA (ESL), PhD (Syntax and Stylistics)

Areas of Specialization:  Syntax and Applied Linguistics

Title of M.A. Thesis:

Bamigbade W. A. (1999). A Stylistic Study of the Language of the English Translation of the Qur-aan. Unpublished M.A. (ESL) Thesis, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Title of Ph.D. Thesis:

Bamigbade W. A. (2007). Grammar and Style in the Register of English for Science and Technology. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Ongoing Current Research: “The Danger of Internet Resources for Language Teaching”

Publications:

Bamigbade W.A. (2010a) “Agreement Relations in the English Sentence”. In Babalola, E.T.O. (Ed.) Use of English for University Students. Osogbo: Osun State University. pp 103-124.

Bamigbade W.A. (2012a) “The Passive Voice in English”. In W. Adegbite, S. Adekoya, and A. Adegoju (Eds) Use of English: A Manual on Communicative Skills for Tertiary Institutions. Ile-Ife: Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University. pp 177-185.

Williams J., Abdelhamid A. and Bamigbade W. A. (2018) ‘Writing Centres in Higher Education Institutions in Qatar: A Critical Review’. In O. Z. Barnawi (Ed.) Writing Centres in the Higher Education Landscape of the Arabian Gulf. Britain: Palgrave Macmillan. pp 41-59. (UK)

Bamigbade W. A. (2017a) ‘Signs and Meanings: Semiotic Significations in Bina Nengi-Ilagha’s Condolences’. In C. Uwasomba, O. Coker, K. Atilade, K. (Eds.) Emerging Perspectives on the Twenty-First Century Nigerian Novel. Germany: Galda Verlag. pp 375-393. (GERMANY)

Bamigbade W.A (2009a) “Empirical Investigation of Abstract Nominals as Passive By-Agents in EST Texts and their Implication for EST Pedagogy”. Papers in English and Linguistics (PEL). Vol. 10, 126-143. (NIGERIA)

Bamigbade W.A. (2009b) “Empirical Investigation of EST Texts Accessibility to Science and Technology (ST) Learners in the Nigerian ESL/EFL Environment”. International Journal of Pure and Applied Science. Vol.2 No.2, 74-84. (GHANA)

Bamigbade W.A. (2010b) “Rhetorical Functions in EST Discourse: Investigating Current Trends in Visual-Verbal Relationships among the ESL ST Learners in the Nigerian Tertiary Institutions”. International Journal of Research in Education. Vol. 2 No.7, 1-7. (GHANA)

Bamigbade W.A. (2010c) “Science and Technology as Site for Language Contact: Experience from Linguistic Style of the non-formal Motor- Mechanics in the South Western Nigeria”. The African Nebula, Vol. 1 No. 2, 78-91. (Online) http://www.nobleworld.biz/africannebula12.html. (NIGERIA)

Bamigbade W.A. (2012b) “The Limit of our Liberty with English in Nigeria: the Linguistic Style of Six Nigerian Conference Flyers”. Journal of the Nigeria English Studies Association (JNESA), Vol. 15 No. 2, 165 – 182. (NIGERIA)

Bamigbade W.A. (2017b) “A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Adjectival Group Structural (Mis)conceptions among Nigerian ESL Learners”. Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies, Vol. 27, 67-88. (NIGERIA)

Bamigbade, W.A. (2017c) “Semiosis of Female Nude Pictures in some Online Celebrities’ News Websites’. Ife Studies in English Language (ISEL) Journal Vol. 13, No 2, 154-178. (NIGERIA)

Bamigbade, W.A. and Gbadegesin, D. O. (2017d) “I is the moniger supervizing, anything I decizion, I decizion: Aspects of Jenifarian English grammar and pronunciation”. Research in Africa Languages and Linguistics (RALL). Vol 16, 116-146. (NIGERIA)

Staff Profile

I served as Examiner for the West African Examination Council (WAEC) for three years for both the school (May/June) and public (Nov/Dec) Examinations; as Chair, Research and Publications Unit, and as Editor-in-Chief, School of Business Journal, Federal Polytechnic Ede between June 2009 and June 2011. I have been a resource person at various capacity building workshops for English Language teachers organized by the Osun State University, Osogbo (2010); by a private College in Osogbo (2011, 2022); and at different times between 2012 and 2014 at the National Education Research and Development Council (NERDC) workshops in Lagos for the development and assessment of English Language Reading Curriculum for the Primary and Junior Secondary Schools. I have worked with graduate students to secure overseas scholarships by writing recommendations on them for postgraduate studies and a number of them have been successful. I have been co-editor for a 670-page book: Ayo Osisanwo, Waheed Bamigbade, Ebuka Igwebuike and Akin Tella (Eds.) (2020). Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Variations and English Usage in the Nigerian Context: A Festschrift for Moses Alo; and I reviewed manuscripts for the book: Ademilokun M.A., Onanuga, P., Oamen, F. Alfred, B. (2021). Critical Discourse Analysis and the Linguistics of Social Medial Interaction: A Festschrift for Rotimi Taiwo. In 2012, I created a Facebook Group called Ẹwà Èdèe Yorùbá to promote Yoruba as Mother Tongue, focusing on the Yoruba Language usage, standard writing, proverbs, literary and creative writings, creative oral renditions, proficiency and fluency, and serving as a resource for linguistic research. Membership – mainly Yoruba speakers – currently stands at 4,211. I am Convener (2022 till date) for the establishment of a registered and thriving online newspaper and TV, Integrity News Nigeria (i-News Nigeria) as a player in the global media space. I am a member of the Pragmatic Point, a scholarly research team of academics on Pragmatics focusing on on-going manuscripts, paper presentations, regular discourse on theories in the field, and sharing of publication, fellowship, and grant opportunities for members.