Prof. Benedicta Adokarley Lomotey - Spanish Section

Associate Professor

Contact info balomotey@ug.edu.gh

About

Benedicta Adokarley Lomotey is an Associate Professor of Spanish and General Linguistics at the University of Ghana. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts (double major in Spanish and French) and her Master of Philosophy in Spanish from the University of Ghana. She has a Master of Arts in Language Science and Hispanic Linguistics as well as a Ph.D. in Spanish Language and General Linguistics from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain. She is a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies’ African Humanities Program (ACLS-AHP) and Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa (BANGA-Africa, with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York). She is the incoming Director of the University of Ghana Centre for Latin American Studies (effective 1st November 2023).

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5337-4626

Scopus Author Identifier: 56994011800

Web of Science account: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/2352899

Education

She obtained her Bachelor of Arts (double major in Spanish and French) and her Master of Philosophy in Spanish from the University of Ghana. She has a Master of Arts in Language Science and Hispanic Linguistics as well as a Ph.D. in Spanish Language and General Linguistics from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain. 

Research Interest

Her research interests are Gender and Language; Foreign Language Teaching and Learning; Global Citizenship and Foreign Language Education.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER REVIEWED)

  1. Lomotey, B. A., Csajbok-Twerefou, I., Husein, A. A., Diabah, G. (2023). The gender enrolment gap in foreign language education revisited: Contemporary issues in a Ghanaian higher education institution. System, 117
  2. Lomotey, B. A. (2021). Un Vistazo a la Enseñanza de ELE en Ghana: Tendencias, Retos y Perspectivas Actuales. In Instituto Cervantes (Eds.), La huella africana en el español, Madrid, 16-18 de noviembre de 2021. Disponible en: https://www.cervantes.es/imagenes/File/lengua/hispanismo/encuentros-hispanistas-africa-espana/ponencias/Benedicta_Adokarley_II_Encuentro_Hispanistas_Africanos_2021.pdf
  3. Parejo, J. L., Lomotey, B. A., Reynés-Ramon, M., & Cortón-Heras, M. O. (2022). Professional development perspectives on Global Citizenship Education in Ghana. Educational Research, 64(4), 407-423.
  4. Lomotey, B. A. & Boampong, J. (2022). Journeys Across Time, Space, Memory, and Life: Ekomo as a Feminist Travel Narrative. Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium, 7(1), 23-40.
  5. Lomotey, B. A. (2021). Anxiety in Adult Foreign Language Learning: The Case of Ghanaian Undergraduate Students of Spanish. Legon Journal of the Humanities, 32(1), 49-81. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v32i1.3.
  6. Lomotey, B. A. & Csajbok-Twerefou, I (2021). A pragmatic and sociolinguistic analysis of proverbs across languages and cultures. Journal of Pragmatics, 182, 86-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.06.014.
  7. Lomotey, B. A. (2020). Exploring Gender Ideologies in Social Media Jokes During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Gender Studies, 19(1), 65-89.
  8. Lomotey, B. A. & Antwi Boasiako, A. (2020). Investigating University of Ghana Students’ Beliefs and Attitudes About Spanish and Russian Language Learning and Their Effects on Motivation. Marang: Journal of Language and Literature, 33, 63-85.
  9. Lomotey, B. A. (2020). A Conversational Analysis of Language Practices in the FL Classroom: Data from a Ghanaian University Context. Linguistics Journal, 14(1), 98-121.
  10. Lomotey, B. A. & Chachu S. (2020). Gender Ideologies and Power Relations in Proverbs: A Cross-Cultural Study. Journal of Pragmatics, 168, 69-80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.07.001.
  11. Lomotey, B. A. (2020). Revisiting the classic debate on language choice in the FL classroom: Current perspectives from a Ghanaian University. RASK – International Journal of Language and Communication, 51, 17-38.
  12. Lomotey, B. A. (2020). Exploring the Adoption of Spanish GFL in School Domains: An African University in Focus. Sexuality & Culture, 24(4). 1082-1106. DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09746-0.
  13. Lomotey, B. A. (2019). Towards an appraisal of language practices in the FL classroom: A Ghanaian university in focus. Konin Language Studies, 7(4), 475-494. DOI: 10.30438/ksj.2019.7.4.4.
  14. Lomotey, B. A. (2019). Towards a sociolinguistic analysis of the current relevance of androcentric proverbs in Peninsular Spanish. Legon Journal of the Humanities, 30(1), 161-177. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v30i1.7.
  15. Lomotey, B. A. (2019). An Analysis of Current Perceptions and Attitudes towards the Study of Spanish as a Foreign Language and its Prospects: The University of Ghana in Perspective. Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 13(3), 117-131.
  16. Lomotey, B. A. (2019). Women, metaphors and the legitimisation of gender bias in Spanish proverbs. Journal of International Women's Studies, 20(2), 324-339.
  17. Lomotey, B. A. (2018). Making Spanish gender fair: A review of anti-sexist language reform attempts from a language planning perspective. Current Issues in Language Planning, 19(4), 383-400. DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2017.1403217.
  18. Lomotey, B. A. (2017). An exploratory review of gender ideologies and sexism in the Ga language. Gender and Language, 11(2), 227–254. DOI: 10.1558/genl.19614.
  19. Lomotey, B. A. (2015). Language reform: A critical look at its chances of success in the Spanish context. Gender and Language, 9(3), 435–460. DOI: 10.1558/genl.v9i3.18506.
  20. Lomotey, B. A. (2015). On sexism in language and language change: The case of peninsular Spanish. Linguistik Online, 70(1), 167–183. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.70.1748.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

  1. Lomotey, B. A. (2022). Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism, edited by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard. Contrastive Pragmatics, 1(aop), 1-6.

 

PUBLISHED DOCTORAL THESIS

  1. Lomotey, B. A. (2016). El sexismo lingüístico e implicaciones reformistas para la lengua: Una perspectiva crítica del español y un estudio colateral del Ga. [Doctoral tesis, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia]. UNED. Available at http://e-spacio.uned.es/fez/view/tesisuned:Filologia-Balomotey. 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Lomotey, B. A. (2022). La influencia del lenguaje inclusivo en la enseñanza de ELE y nuevas perspectivas. In L. Alarcón Gómez, P.  Arantegui Gallardo & S. Bernardo Méndez (Eds.), Voces eclipsadas: expresiones disidentes y escrituras propias en los márgenes de la feminidad [Eclipsed voices: Dissident expressions and personal writings on the margins of femininity] (pp. 57–73). Madrid: Editorial Dykinson.
  2. Lomotey, B. A. & Diabah G. (2022). Sex jokes and ideology: A Sociopragmatic inquiry of the place of humour in gender performance and practices. In I. Chukwumah (Ed.), Sexual humour in Africa: gender, jokes and societal change (pp. 154–175). London & New York: Routledge.
  3. Lomotey, B. A. (2016). Gender categories in Ga and Spanish: A comparative analysis of the problem of linguistic sexism. In D. Britain & S. Guzzo (Eds.), Languaging diversity: variationist approaches and identities (Vol. 2, pp. 99–112). United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  4. Lomotey, B. A. (2015). Probing the manifestations of gender in Ga. In M. Hellinger & H. Motschenbacher (Eds.), Gender across languages: The linguistic representation of women and men (Vol. 4, pp. 153–171). Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Company.