Alimsiwen Elijah Ayaawan

Title: 
Mr.
Position: 
Research Fellow
Education: 
B.A., University of Cape Coast (2011); M.Phil, University of Cape Coast (2015)
Email: 
aayaawan@ug.edu.gh

Research:

  • Identity in Academic Writing
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Metaphor
  • Literature in teaching Academic Writing

Publications:

  1. Ayaawan, A. E. & Antia, B. E. (2023). Authorship, place and voice in research: A transitivity analysis of selected African and Western journals. Legon Journal of the Humanities, 34 (2), 24-57. 
  1. Anderson, J., & Ayaawan, A. E. (2023). Formative feedback in a writing programme at the University of Ghana. In A. Esimaje et al. (Eds) Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of English in Higher Education (pp. 197–213). London & New York: Routledge. 
  1. Agbaglo, E., Ayaawan, A. E., Owusu, E. (2021). Genre Analysis of the Introduction Sections of Newsfile: A Ghanaian TV Talk Show. Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 6(1), 73- 88. 
  1. Ayaawan, A. E. & Adika, G. S. K.  (2021). Dialogue and subject positioning in pedagogical practice: The case of the academic literacies classroom in a Ghanaian university. Teaching in Higher Education, DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2021.1943653. 
  1. Ayaawan, A. E. (2021). The colonising effect: Marketisation and the discursive enactment of institutional identity on Ghanaian universities’ websites. International Journal of Marketing Semiotics and Discourse Studies, 9, 1-21. 
  1. Ayaawan, A. E. & Opoku, G. (2020). Ideological discursive formations in an emerging democracy: The case of Ghana in the Fourth Republic. Ghana Journal of Linguistics 9 (1), 47-72. 
  1. Ayaawan, A. E. (2018). Corporate identity on the web: The case of telecommunication companies in Ghana. Legon Journal of the Humanities, 29 (1), 73-95.  
  2. Oppong- Adjei, D & Ayaawan, E. A. (2013). A comparative analysis of the prose styles of Achebe and Armah. Language in India 13 (9) pp. 1 - 18

Conferences & Workshops:

  1. Participant, Pan-African Doctoral School on Managing the  doctoral process held at the University of Ghana (15th- 19th January 2018).
  2. Partnership for Africa’s next generation of academics (PANGeA) workshop on Critical Discourse Analysis at the University of Ghana (21-23 November 2017).
  3. Ayaawan, E. A. (2015). The chronotope of the encounter in Achebe’s Things fall apart.Presented at the Department of English Graduate Seminar.
  4. Ayaawan, E. A. (2015). The communal chronotope in Armah’s The healers. Presented at Emerging Scholars in Language, Literary Arts and Communication.
  5. Ayaawan E. A. (2015). Football in computer-mediated discourse: A genre analysis of the match preview. Presented at Emerging Scholars in Language, Literary Arts and Communication.
  6. Chairman of presentation – Acquah, I. (2016). The rhetoric of political campaign in Ghana: a study of NPP and NDC campaign messages during the 2012 election. Presented at the Department of English Graduate Seminar, University of Cape Coast, Faculty of Arts Conference Room: 10thMay, 2016.
  7. Chairman of presentation – Okyere-Darko, N. (2015). A reading of Chimamanda Adechie’s Purple Hibiscus. Presented at the Department of English Graduate Seminar, University of Cape Coast, Faculty of Arts Conference Room.
  8. Corpus Linguistics Workshop (23rd February 2016)

Courses Taught:

UGRC 110: Academic Writing I
UGRC 210: Academic Writing II
LANG001: Writing Skills I
LANG002: Writing Skills II