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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,English Language (Linguistics) |
| Keywords | interdisciplinary network, West African scientists of different disciplines, networking initiative, German scientists of different disciplines, collaborative research and promotion of science |
| Honours and awards | 2023: AvH Fellowship for a re-newed 3-month research stay 2021: AvH Fellowship for a 3-month virtual research stay 2019: AvH Fellowship for a re-newed 3-month research stay 2017: Appointed as book Editor for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, based in the United Kingdom 2016: AvH Fellowship for a re-newed 3-month research stay 2010: AvH Fellowship for a 4-month German Language course 2010: AvH Fellowship for an 18-month research stay 2009: DAAD Scholarship for a 3-month renewed research stay 2009: DAAD Summer School of Cologne Aaward for a 2-week course 2006: Fulbright African Senior Research Scholar Fellowship (USA) 2000: DAAD Doctoral Scholarship for a one-year research stay 2000: DAAD Scholarship for a 4-month Language course |
Current contact address
| Country | Cameroon |
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| City | Yaounde |
| Institution | Universite de Yaounde I |
| Institute | Ecole Normale Superieure, Department of English |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider | Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg |
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| Prof. Dr. Jakob Leimgruber | Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/07/2010 |
Programme(s)
| 2009 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | Aloysius Ngefac: Cameroon English. In: Kingsley Bolton, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Wiley Blackwell, 2025. 1 - 12 |
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| 2025 | Aloysius Ngefac and Kingsley Ugwuanyi: Twenty Years after the Dynamic Model: Investigating the factors that Triggered the Endonormative Stabilisation of Cameroon and Nigerian Englishes. In: Sofia Rudiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert, & Sarah Buschfeld, World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model. Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 68 - 84 |
| 2024 | Aloysius Ngefac: A transformative vision in the development agenda of postcolonial Africa: Focus on Pure and Natural Sciences. In: Annie Sylvie Beya Wakata, Simeon Fogue Kouam, Rosemary Tonjock Kinge, Telesphore Benoit Nguelefack & Aloysius Ngefac, The Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa: Voices of Pure and Natural Scientists. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024. 14 - 28 |
| 2024 | Annie Sylvie Beya Wakata, Simeon Fogue Kouam, Rosemary Tonjock Kinge, Telesphore Benoit Nguelefack & Aloysius Ngefac: Introduction. In: Annie Sylvie Beya Wakata, Simeon Fogue Kouam, Rosemary Tonjock Kinge, Telesphore Benoit Nguelefack & Aloysius Ngefac, The Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa: Voices of Pure and Natural Scientists. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024. 2 - 13 |
| 2024 | Annie Sylvie Beya Wakata, Simeon Fogue Kouam, Rosemary Tonjock Kinge, Telesphore Benoit Nguelefack, Aloysius Ngefac: The Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa: Voices of Pure and Natural Scientists. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024 |
| 2022 | Aloysius Ngefac: Aspects of Cameroon Englishes. Cambrdige Scholars Publishing, 2022 |
| 2022 | Aloysius Ngefac: Introduction: Aspects of Cameroon Englishes. In: Aloysius Ngefac, Aspects of Cameroon Englishes. Cambrdige Scholars Publishing, 2022. 1 - 15 |
| 2022 | Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann: World Englishes and Creole Languages Today. Vol. 1: The Schneiderian Thinking and Beyond. Lincom Europa, 2022 |
| 2022 | Aloysius Ngefac, Hans-Georg Wolf & Thomas Hoffmann: World Englishes and Creole Languages Today. Vol. 2: The Bobdian Thinking and Beyond. Lincom Europa, 2022 |
| 2022 | Aloysius Ngefac: “Cameroon English” or “Cameroon Englishes”: The English language situation in Cameroon as a challenge to traditional World Englishes paradigms. In: Aloysius Ngefac, Aspects of Cameroon Englishes. Cambrdige Scholars Publishing, 2022. 16 - 48 |
| 2021 | Aloysius Ngefac: Beyond Semantics: A Pragmatic Study of some Speech Acts in Cameroon English. In: Niyi Osunbade, Foluke Unuabonah, Ayo Osisanwo, Akin Adetunji, Akinola Odebunmi, Funke Oni, Pragmatics, Discourse and Society Volume 1: A Festschrift for Akin Odebunmi. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. 182 - 194 |
| 2016 | Aloysius Ngefac: Sociolinguistic and Structural Aspects of Cameroon Creole English. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 |
| 2015 | Aloysius Ngefac: The Standardisation and Officialisation of Cameroon Creole English: Challenges and Prospects. In: Akin Odebunmi and J. T. Mathangwane Language, Communication, and Literature in Africa. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 19-34 |
| 2014 | Aloysius Ngefac & Loreto Todd: Is Kamtok a variety of English or a language in its own right?. In: ALIZÉS: Review Angliciste de la Réunion, 2014, 123-135 |
| 2014 | Aloysius Ngefac: The evolutionary trajectory of Cameroonian Creole and its varying sociolinguistic statuses. In: Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch, The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and Beyond. Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. 434-447 |
| 2014 | Aloysius Ngefac: Which Orthography Befits the Dynamics of Kamtok?. In: Epasa Moto, 2014, 221-235 |
| 2013 | Aloysius Ngefac: A Diachronic and Synchronic Appraisal of Kamtok. In: Akinmade T. Akande, Rotimi Taiwo, Contact Linguistics in Africa and Beyond. Nova Publishers, 2013. 127-148 |
| 2012 | Aloysius Ngefac: From skin colour mutilation to tongue rejection: Cameroonians' attitudes towards their local tongues. In: Georges Echu & Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue, FIFTY YEARS OF OFFICIAL LANGUAGE BILINGUALISM IN CAMEROON (1961-2011) Situation, Stakes and Perspectives. L'Harmattan, 2012. 163-180 |
| 2011 | Aloysius Ngefac: Globalising a local language and localising a global language: the case of Kamtok and English in Cameroon. In: English Today The International Review of the English Language , 2011, 16-21 |
| 2011 | Aloysius Ngefac: When the blind lead the blind: the fallacy of promoting Standard British English accent in Cameroon . In: Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2011, 40-44 |
| 2010 | Aloysius Ngefac and E. W. Bami: Attitudes of Professional Users of English towards Cameroon English Accent. In: ALIZÉS 33, 2010, 217-236 |
| 2010 | Aloysius Ngefac: Cameroon English accent: Issues of standardization, attitudes and pedagogic concerns. In: 'Journal of Languages and Culture', 2010, 1-7 |
| 2010 | Aloysius Ngefac: Linguistic Choices in Postcolonial Multilingual Cameroon. In: Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2010, 149-164 |