Background
Prior to joining Binghamton University, James Kofi Agbo was a lecturer at the University of Ghana, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses such as business French, formal written expression in French, teaching French as a foreign language, French for specific purposes, and fundamentals in didactics and language acquisition. He has also supervised student research on discourse analysis, psycholinguistics and didactics.
He has also taught French at Ho Technical University (HTU), the University of Professional Studies Accra (UPSA), Accra, and the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ho.
Agbo is a member of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Ghana Association of French Teachers (GAFT) and Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG). He has a C2 in French and has Knowledge of CECRL; he also speaks English and Ewe. He is a faculty advisor for French minors and majors.
Publications
- Agbo, J.K. (2023). Évaluation de l’enseignement hybride chez les étudiants de FLE à l’École Normale Supérieure de Mount Mary Somanya, Educare revue de la faculté des sciences de l’éducation the journal of the faculty of education, Vol. 2 N° 004 (pp. 15-39)
- Agbo, J.K & Kaiza, E. K. (2023). L’impact des évaluations semestrielles en ligne (Sakai) sur les étudiants de niveau 400 au département de français à l’Université du Ghana, Legon Journal of the Humanities Vol. 34.1 (pp. 66-91).
- Fiagbe K. Fiawomorm, Fiadzawoo, J. K. & Agbo, J.K. (2023). Systemic barriers to effective teaching/learning of French in Ghana, European Journal of Language Policy/ Revue européenne de politique linguistique.
- Fiadzawoo, J. K., Agbo, J.K. & Athiley, M. A. (2022). Améliorer la communication orale en classe de langue : les perspectives didactiques des futurs enseignants et des professeurs de l’École Normale Supérieure de Mount Mary (MOMACOE), Somanya, Journal of French and Francophone Studies, Volume (no) pp. 30 -52
- Bakah, E. K., Agbo, J. K. & Gyan, J. (2021). Questionner en classe de FLE au lycée ghanéen : Quels traits à retenir ? Lɔŋgbowu Revue des Langues, Lettres et Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, Volume 1(no 12) pp. 3-17
Education
- BA, MPhil and PhD, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
- Post-secondary teaching certificate, Mount Mary College of Education, Ghana
Research Interests
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- Discourse analysis
- Didactics of French as a foreign language
- French for specific purposes
- Sociolinguistics
- Second language acquisition
