Department of English Language and Literature
Directory
Albert Abban
| Title: | PhD Student Graduate Teaching Assistant |
| Department: | English Language and Literature McCausland College of Arts and Sciences |
| Email: | aabban@email.sc.edu |
Pronoun
He, His, Him
Education
B.A. English and French, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Field Of Interest
Rhetorical Theory, Composition Studies, African Rhetorical Traditions, Translingual
and Multilingual Pedagogies, Raciolinguistics, Digital Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Health
and Medicine.
Biography
Albert Abban is a PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition and a Graduate Teaching
Assistant in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of
South Carolina. This summer, he is serving as a Graduate Research Assistant in the
department, focusing on archival research. His research spans rhetorical theory and
composition studies, focusing on African rhetorical traditions, translingual approaches
(including raciolinguistics), digital rhetoric, rhetoric of health and medicine, critical
discourse analysis, and applied linguistics. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in
English with a minor in French from KNUST in 2022. After graduating, he was competitively
selected to serve as a Teaching Assistant (National Service) in the Department of
English at KNUST from 2022 to 2023. In 2024, he worked as a Teaching Consultant at
Education USA Kumasi – ACE Consult, where he taught standardized test preparation
for the SAT, IELTS, and TOEFL. Albert is a member of the British Association for Applied
Linguistics (BAAL-UK), initially awarded a fee-free membership in 2024 through the
association’s Solidarity scheme for global inclusion and representation. Albert is
a co-author of a forthcoming (2025) book chapter on multilingualism and language contact,
accepted for publication in Trends in Applied Linguistics (De Gruyter Mouton). Outside of academia, Albert enjoys cooking, playing football,
singing and dancing.
Selected Publications
Abban, A., Mensah, D., & ResCue, E. (2024). Bilingual practices in higher education:
The pedagogic relevance of French-English code-switching in Ghana. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 13(1). Advance online publication. DOI update pending.
Abban, A., Mensah, D., Akosah, M. R. O., & Amponsem, K. B. (2024). Language and persuasion: An exploratory analysis of rhetorical elements in celebrities’ social media posts. E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 5(3), 190–204. https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2024533
Mensah, D. Owu-Ewie, C. Abunya, L. N. Abban, A. (2024). Written corrective feedback practices in Senior High Schools in Ghana. Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching. 8(1), 406-424p
Mensah, D., Owu-Ewie, C., Abunya, L. N., Abban, A., & Jibril, H. S. (2024). Lexical errors in English language writing: The case of selected senior high school students in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 5(16), 3067–3086. https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.202451631
Abban, A., Mensah, D., & ResCue, E. (2023). Code switching in French and Francophone Studies Classrooms in a Ghanaian public university: Exploring perceptions and motivations. Global Journal of Educational Studies, 9(2), 14-39.doi:10.5296/gjes.v9i2.21549