PhD in Linguistics and English language offering phonetics/phonology lessons and dissertation/thesis proposal writing

Rebecca's CV

Personal Statement
An experienced teacher with 15 years experience of secondary school and university teaching. I am a recent |PhD degree holder from Newcastle University UK with good research skills. I also have good office administration skills and I am a good team player. My career goal is to secure a teaching/and or research position; or an administrative role in order to utilize my current skills and knowledge and to further develop my skills.
Qualifications
• PhD in Linguistics and English Language, Newcastle University UK 2017
• MA Language and Linguistics, Merit, Newcastle University, UK 2012
• PGDE National Teachers Institute Kaduna, Nigeria 2008
• BA English Language, 2:2 University of Maiduguri, Nigeria 2001
Work Experience
1. Lecturer II at Gombe state University
Main Activities: Teaching English language to undergraduate students in the Department of English, Gombe State University and also the Use of English component of the General studies department.
Start Date: 01/04/2013
End Date: Left on study leave
2. Teaching Assistant Newcastle University
Main Activities: Leading seminars for 1st year undergraduate linguistics students in the Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology module, and marking of exams.
Start Date: 06/10/2014
End Date: 12/12/2016
3. Part time office Administrator at Blue Sky Trust Newcastle
Main activities: Covering administrative tasks for Blue Sky Trust including office day to day phone calls, attending to visitors, and 1-2-1 support for service users
Start Date: 10/04/2017
End Date: on going
4. Class Teacher Ministry of Education Bauchi and Gombe state
Main Activities: Teaching English language to secondary school students
Start Date: 01/08/2003
End Date: 30/03/2013
Membership of professional associations
• British Association for Applied Linguistics BAAL ID: 1512/3173
• British Association for Applied Linguistics/Language in Africa special interest group BAAL/LIASIG
• American Association for Applied Linguistics
• Linguistics Association of Great Britain LAGB ID: (concealed information)
• Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria ID: GB/S/02341
Recognitions
• Fellow - Ford Foundation International 2012
• Associate Fellow – The Higher Education Academy UK 2017, Recognition reference: PR127637
Academic Thesis/Dissertations
Musa, R.I. (2017) Production and perception of L2 English orthographic and phonological representations by L1 Tera/Hausa speakers: An experimental study. PhD. Thesis, Newcastle University
Musa, R.I. (2012). Production and perception of English complex articulation among Tera and Fulani secondary school students. M.A. Dissertation, Newcastle University.
Musa, R.I. (2007). The impediments of teaching oral English in senior secondary schools: A case study of Bauchi state metropolis. PGDE Dissertation, National Teachers Institute Kaduna.
Yunusa, R.A. (2000). Contrastive analysis of the fricatives and nasals of Tera and English. Undergraduate Dissertation, University of Maiduguri
Peer Reviewed Papers
Musa, R.I. & Altakhaineh, A. (2015). An Application of Optimality Theory (OT) on Syllable Structure within Reduplication in Hausa Spoken in Kano. International Journal of English Language and Linguistics Research Vol.3, No.1, pp.37-49.
Alqahtani, M. & Musa, R. (2015). Vowel Epenthesis in Arabic Loanwords in Hausa. International Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 7, No. 2 pp. 62-80
Musa, R.I. (2018). Alternation of the Velar Phonemes of the Tera Language. International Journal of English Language and Linguistics Research Vol.6, No 1, pp. 22-30,

Conference Presentations
Musa, R.I. (2014) English complex articulations: A comparative analysis of Tera and Fulani L2 learners. Poster presentation at the Newcastle Post Graduate Linguistic Conference, Percy building Newcastle University 04/04/2014
Musa, R.I. (2015) Orthography vs. phonological representation: L2 English production and perception by L1 Tera speakers (Pilot study). Poster presentation at the British Association for applied Linguistics conference, Aston University Birmingham 03/09/2015
Musa, R.I. & Cao, X. (2015) Perception of Mandarin lexical tones by Tera speakers. Poster presented at the International Symposium on Chinese Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISOCTAL) Research beehive Newcastle University 11/12/2015
Musa, R.I. (2015) Production and perception of L2 English orthographic and phonological representation by L1 Tera speakers. Oral presentation at the Student Work in Progress seminar, G5 Percy building Newcastle University 01/06/2015
Musa, R.I. (2016) Technology-enhanced teaching of oral English: An experimental study among Tera secondary school students in Nigeria. Oral presentation at the British Association for Applied Linguistics/Language in Africa Special Interest group BAAL/LIASIG conference, University of East London 06/05/2016
Musa, R.I. (2016) Technology-enhanced teaching of English pronunciation: An experimental study of secondary school students in Nigeria. Poster presentation at the Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching conference, University of Calgary, Canada 12 -13 /08/2016