BIOGRAPHY

Bolaji, Ezekiel Tunde (Ph.D. English, M.A.English, APCIT, B.A.ED, N.C.E., FIAS) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language Education, College of Languages and Communication Arts Education, Lagos State University of Education, Oto/Ijanikin, Lagos State, Nigeria. He teaches courses in phonetics and phonology, spoken English and morphology. His research interests cut across, Phonetics and Phonology, Morphology and Syntax, Contact Linguistics and Theoretical Linguistics , with particular reference to the English language and Benue-Congo languages. He also has interest in the literature and culture of the Yoruba people. He is a member, International Literacy Association (ILA), Ecolinguistics Association of Nigeria, Teachers Registration Council of NIGERIA (TRCN), Association of Phoneticians and Phonologists in Nigeria (APPN), Fellow, Ifè Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN),  Alumnus, African Linguistics School (ALS). Dr. Bolaji has attended conferences, seminars and workshops both locally and internationally. He is an editor, a local and international reviewer and a proofreader. Dr. Bolaji has articles in books and journals in both local and international publications. He is currently the University Orator.

JOURNALS
  1. Bolaji, E. T. & Bolaji, F. M.(2023). Think thank model and its application in phonology. Journal of School of Languages and Communication Arts Education, 2(1),091-102.
  2. Bolaji, E.T. (2022), A Morphophonological Study of Yorùbá Borrowings in English. A Ph.D. Thesis submitted to the Department of English Language and Literary Studies, Babcock University, Ogun State.  
  3. Bolaji, E.T., Adebanjo, M.O. & Iwaeni, R.O. (2022). Parametric variation of functional categories in English and Ogu. Journal of Nursery and Primary Education in Nigeria (JNPEIN), 5(1), 213-220.
  4. Adeniyi, K. & Bolaji, E. (2022). What Is Las Gidi To You? A Discourse Analysis of Selected Poems on Lagos. Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 4(2), 168-176. (International)
  5. Bolaji, E.T. & Bolaji, O.M.K (2022). Beyond the sentence. Journal of Language and Communication Ats Education, Lagos State University of Education (JOCOLCAED), Lagos, Lagos State, 1(1), 156-165. (Local).  
  6. Bolaji, E.T., Osisanwo, W. & Aina, O. (2021). Enriching the lexicon of a global language: A constraint-based study of Yorùbá borrowings in British English. Ebonyi Journal of Language and Literary Studies, 4(1), 1-19. (International).
  7. Bolaji, E.T. (2021) Optimality Theory and coda cluster simplification in Nigerian English. Journal of the Association of Phoneticians and Phonologists in Nigeria, 1(1), 199-210. (International)
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