SOYOYE Festus Ayodeji

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SOYOYE Festus Ayodeji

Professor

Email address(es): fsoyoye@oauife.edu.ng; fsoyoye@gmail.com

Office Address:  Room 306A, Humanities Block 1

Academic Qualifications: B.A. French (Ife); M.A. Linguistics (Ife); DEA Linguistique Appliquee (Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3); Nouveau Doctorat (Linguistique) Sorbonne

Areas of Specialization: Applied Linguistics, French Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics

Title of M.A. Thesis: A Sociolinguistic Contrastive Study of Nominal Terms of Address in Standard Yoruba and Standard French

Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Une etude contrastive des systemes verbaux du yoruba et du francais

Scholarships:

  1. i) French Government Scholarship (Year Abroad) – Universite de Grenoble 3: 1979-1980
  2. ii) French Government Scholarship(Doctoral Studies) at the Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 : 1985-1989

Ongoing Current Research:

  1. i) Etude stylistique Linguistique d’un poeme Dr M. Adiyi Bestman
  2. ii) Analysis of Pronunciation Induced Errors of Learners of French as a Foreign Language

Publications:

  1. i) SOYOYE, F.A., OSUNNIRAN, T. A. & ADEJARE, (2021), La societe ivoirienne face aux choice Linguistique, Akofena, Special no. 6, vol. 2
  2. ii) SOYOYE, F. A. & BABALOLA, J. O. (2020), “Une etude multimodal de la publicite des automobiles en francais et en anglais”, IJOFOL, no. 11, pp. 22-31

iii) OLANIYI, A. F. & SOYOYE, F. A. (2020), “Analysis of Primary Six French Language Curriculum in Nigeria Education System “, IJOFOL, no. 11, pp. 62-72)

  1. iv) SOYOYE, F. A. (2019), “Politeness and Terms of Dress and Reference in French and Yoruba”, in T. Szende & G. Also (eds ), Pragmatics and Cross Cultural Completeness, Wien: Peter Lang

Staff Profile:

Festus Ayodeji Soyoye is a professor of French language and linguistics (contrastive linguistics, linguistic stylistics and translation). He had his higher education at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Nigeria and the Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France. He has over 30 years of teaching, research and administration at the university level. He is trained to conduct programme accreditation in French education, French studies and linguistics. He was certified in 2021 by the Global University Network for Innovation (Africa) and the African Quality Assurance Network as a Certified Accreditor for programme and institutional accreditation.