Top Ten Academic Quotes of All Time by Prof. Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo
I attended the 319th Inaugural Lecture of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, Nigeria, titled, "BEYOND THE TEXT: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND THE QUEST FOR MEANING IN CYBERSPACE INTERACTION", delivered at Oduduwa Hall on Tuesday, 22nd May, 2018 by Professor of English Language, Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, under the distinguished chairmanship of The Vice Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Professor Eyitope O. Ogunbodede.
Having read the inaugural lecture, I will like to share some extracts with my readers. Happy reading!
"As an applied linguist, my attention has been drawn to the 'array of linguistic possibilities' in the interactive text-based and relatively new ways of communicating in cyberspace. My goal is to see how participants construct and negotiate discursive meaning." - Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, Professor of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University.
"What I choose to call " Cyberspace Interaction" in this lecture may be given different appellations, depending on the perception and orientation of different scholars. Some of its synonyms are: "digital communication", " internet communication ", " online communication ", "cyber language", "virtual communication", " computer mediated communication ", and " computer mediated discourse. While some linguists may try to draw lines of distinctions among these terms, essentially, they refer to the same issue." - Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, Professor of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University.
"The reality of the digital age is that almost everything people do is technologically mediated: relationships, education, career, health, financial management, information dissemination, governance, and so forth." - Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, Professor of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University.
"Cyberspace offers a virtual utopia of self-disclosure, self-discovery and self-actualisation. As participants discover the great potential in cyberspace for communicating ideas, the tendency is always there for them to either over-disclose or under-disclose information in order to achieve self-actualisation." - Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, Professor of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University.
"Cyber language is a socio-cultural practice that can enhance the teaching and learning of English." - Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, Professor of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University.
"The fact that cyberspace creates an opportunity for people to communicate rapidly through a range of media is perhaps one of the best linguistic developments of our time." - Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, Professor of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University.
"Teachers need to understand what the learners are exposed to outside the classroom in order to respond appropriately to the needs of such learners." - Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, Professor of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University.
"Since digital communication has taught students to be interactive, collaborative, exploratory, as well as creative, teachers must value these vital qualities in their students and explore them in their interactions with students." - Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, Professor of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University.
"The traditional face-to-face teaching should be replaced with blended learning which is a combination of e-learning with the traditional classroom methods in order to create a new hybrid methodology. This method will support classroom interactions with digital multimodal assets through the various social media platforms." - Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, Professor of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University.
"We all carry smart phones and laptops about and this gives us potential access to enormous information, which we do not make use of as we ought to. Rather than engaging the cyberspace for non-essential interactions and lamenting the negative sides of the Internet, we can identify and engage the positive and more beneficial ways to interact through it." - Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, Professor of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University.
Awesome quotes! Trust they have won your interest and made your list of choice quotes. Hope we meet again soonest. I wish you great moments ahead.
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Writer: Bukola Olafenwa.
College: Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, Nigeria.
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