Mr. Akorli Innocent Selasie is an Assistant Lecturer at the School of Basic and Biomedical Sciences of University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS).
Education
He is a doctoral candidate at the University of Ghana, Legon, where he is pursuing a PhD in Linguistics with a major concentration in Phonology. For his doctoral thesis, he is working on the comparative phonological analysis of dialects of Ewe in the Volta Region. He earlier obtained a B. A. (Linguistics major) and M.Phil. in Linguistics from the same University.
Work experience
Prior to his appointment at UHAS, he was a tutor at E. P. College of Education, Amedzofe, Volta Region, Ghana. He was an Adjunct Lecturer of the University Cape Coast Post Diploma Sandwich courses at the St. Teresa’s Teacher Training Cohort Centre (2012 and 2015), where he taught Comprehension, Semantics of English, and Grammar of English. He believes that competent communication is key to an effective health delivery system. He is a trained teacher. He taught English Language for five years at the Senior High School level after graduating from the University of Ghana, Legon, in 2001. He had a six-year-teaching experience in teaching English Language (English Grammar, Methodology of Teaching English, and Composition Writing) at the College of Education.
Science/Research output
Mr. Innocent Selasie Akorli’s research areas are English Language, Ethnography of Speaking, Phonology, and Communication and Health. In 2008, he was a member of a team of writers that was contracted by the Mayan Oxford University Press to write a series of English Language text-books and Teacher’s Guides for Ghanaian Schools. He is currently working on error analysis in academic discourse of students of the University of Health Allied Sciences.