Dr
Media and Communication Studies
1. Personal information
- Title Dr.
- Full Name Aschalew Adera Yimer
- Academic Rank Assistant Professor
- College/Institute Social Sciences and Humanities
- Department Media and Communication Studies
- Field of Specialization
- PhD in Applied Linguistics and Communication, MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL); BEd in English Language
2. Research Interest
- Discourse, conversation analysis , pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics
- Intercultural & cross-culturalcommunication; media studies
- Professional, social and workplace communication
- Teacher education/English language teaching and professional development; assessment
- Language for academic/specific purpose
List of Publications
3. Research Article
- Aschalew Adera and Yemanebirhan Kelemework. March, 2006. Communicative Approach: Classroom interaction at Jireen High school of Jimma Town. Journal of Education, Jimma University, Vol. 1; No. 2; P41.
- Aschalew Adera and Daniel Taye. Mother Tongue Interference: Lexical Transfers from Amharic in the Students’ Written Compositions.
- Meheretu Adinew, Aschalew Adera , and Getaw Girma. Linguistic Identity Formations: The Case of Scripts in Ethiopia (Ongoing for Publication).
- MA Thesis Title: Perception and Practice of Teachers in Training their Students with Oral Communication Strategies (The Case at General Winget and Entoto Technical and Vocational Education Training Colleges) (Unpublished)
- PhD Dissertation Title: Language Use in Print Media Advertising: A Pragmatic-Discourse Approach to Consumer Advertisements (Unpublished)
4. Contact Address
- P.O. Box 5178
- Office tel. +251-472-116-894
- Cell Phone +251-911-720-291
- Email aschalewyimer@yahoo.com