{"id":930,"date":"2025-05-29T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arts.unilag.edu.ng\/?page_id=930"},"modified":"2025-05-29T11:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:46:14","slug":"okoro-oko","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arts.unilag.edu.ng\/index.php\/okoro-oko\/","title":{"rendered":"OKORO OKO"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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TITLE:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PROFESSOR<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

NAME:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OKORO OKO<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

POSITION: <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

EDUCATION \/TRAINING<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

DEGREE<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

COMPLETION DATE<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

FIELD OF STUDY<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

1.\u00a0 UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, NIGERIA<\/p>

2.\u00a0 UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, NIGERIA<\/p>

3.\u00a0 UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, NIGERIA<\/p><\/td>

B.A.<\/p>

M.Phil.<\/p>

Ph.D.<\/p><\/td>

07\/1980<\/p>

05\/1984<\/p>

11\/1992<\/p><\/td>

ENGLISH<\/p>

ENGLISH<\/p>

ENGLISH<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

\u00a0 \u00a0 PERSONAL STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 My area of teaching and research spans Classical English Syntax; Applied Linguistics; and Educational Sociolinguistics. I have over 40 years of university teaching and research experience from May 1985. Much of my interest has been in Nigerian English \u2013 one of the New Englishes<\/em> \u2013 and I have extensively investigated it at all levels of usage: phonetics and phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; and others.\u00a0 My current focus is on faulty analogy<\/em> \u2013 an insidious and hardly acknowledged offshoot of behaviourism that is forever at work, accounting for a large proportion of the language errors occurring on all levels in Nigerian English.\u00a0<\/p>

To link up town and gown, I regularly deploy my wealth of experience in manuscript-correction; editing; and facilitating at Use of English\/Business Communication Skills workshops\/seminars in Nigeria for banks; newspaper houses; credit ratings and risk management firms; the National Pension Commission (PENCOM); audit, tax and advisory services firms; accounting firms; law chambers; churches; the Teachers\u2019 Service Commission (TESCOM), Lagos State; a host of secondary schools; other organizations; and as far afield as Cote d\u2019Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone.<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0POSITIONS, APPOINTMENTS, AND HONOURS<\/strong><\/p>

Resource person at various times for:<\/strong><\/p>

–\u00a0\u00a0 The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPMN)<\/p>

–\u00a0\u00a0 The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)<\/p>

–\u00a0\u00a0 The West African Examinations Council (WAEC)<\/p>

–\u00a0\u00a0 The British Council<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0RECENT PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 1.Okoro, Oko. \u201cNigerian English Usage and the Tyranny of Fault\u00a0I: the Morphological\/Lexical Level.\u201d Nigerian English in Sociolinguistic Perspectives:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Linguistic and Literary Paradigms \u2013 a Festschrift <\/em>Ed. Oko Okoro. Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller GmbH & Co.\u00a0 KG, 2011. 434 \u2013 448. Online\/Print<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02. Okoro, Oko.\u00a0 “Nigerian English Usage and the Tyranny of Faulty Analogy II: Spelling.” The Social Educator. <\/em>Volume 5, Issue 1, 2015,\u00a0 a Journal of the Department of Social Studies Education, University of Education,Winneba Ghana.<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a03. Okoro, Oko. “Nigerian English Usage and the Tyranny of Faulty Analogy III: Pronunciation.” California Linguistic Notes. <\/em>Vol. 41 (1), Spring 2017, a Journal of\u00a0 the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics, California State University, Fullerton, USA.<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04.Okoro, Oko. Selected Journal Articles on Nigerian English Usage, 1986 <\/em>Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller GmbH & Co. KG, 2011. Online\/Print.<\/p>

  1. Okoro, Oko. Exploring Nigerian English \u2013 A Guide to Usage 1 (A \u2013 L)<\/em>. Pedro,Palmgrove, Lagos, Nigeria: Olucouger Prints Limited, 2022. (328 pages)\u00a0 \u00a0<\/li>
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  3. COLLABORATORS\/NETWORKS\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><\/li>
  4. Prof. Adeleke Fakoya, Dept.of English, Lagos State University, Nigeria<\/li>
  5. Prof. Taiwo Soneye, Dept. of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.<\/li>
  6. Prof. David Jowitt, Dept. of English, University of Jos, Nigeria<\/li>
  7. Prof. John Wiredu, Dept. of English, University of Ghana, Accra, Legon<\/li>
  8. Prof. Douglason Omotor, the West African Institute for Financial & Economic \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Management (WAIFEM), Nigeria\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0<\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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