Dr. Owuor Boswell Omondi

School of Education and Social Sciences, Department of Language and Literature Education

He is currently serving as a lecturer of linguistics, a position he has held since 2017. He taught English and Literature in secondary school for many years. He is a member of the Language Association of East Africa.

• Doctoral  at Mount Kenya University. (2019- to date) The title of his PhD thesis is: A Discursive Construction of Linguistic Elements Employed to Invoke Gender and Power During Debate in Busia County Assembly in Kenya.
• Master of Arts Degree (2012) Kenyatta University. The title of his MA Dissertation is: Thematic Organization in Spoken Discourse Among Selected Speakers of Kenyan Dholuo.
• He has a Bachelor of Education – Arts (2^nd Class Upper Division) (2004) Moi University. 

• Has a keen interest in Discourse Analysis as is evident in both the PhD and the MA theses.Attended the following conferences:

• International Mother Language Day/ Conference- Masinde Muliro University of science and Technology (2020) Title of Paper: Mother Language in the Early Years Education in Kenya: The place and role of Folklore. A collaboration with Professor Carolyn Omulando- Alupe university
• International Conference of RC25 ISA -Kenyatta University, (2022)Title of Paper: Linguistic Strategies According to Gender as Reflected in the Kenya National Assembly. A collaboration with Dr. Beth Ngugi of Muran’ga University of Science and Technology
• International Conference of RC25 ISA -Kenyatta University, (2022)Title of Title of Paper: Sociocultural Identity Formation and Reconstruction among Adolescents in Kenya During the COVID19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Selected Texts from the Abakusu Ritualistic Songs. A collaboration with Professor Carolyn Omulando- Alupe university.

• Mother Language in the Early Years Education in Kenya: The place and role of Folklore. (Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology)
• Title of Paper: Linguistic Strategies According to Gender as Reflected in the Kenya National Assembly. (International Conference of RC25 ISA)
• Sociocultural Identity Formation and Reconstruction among Adolescents in Kenya During the COVID19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Selected Texts from the Abakusu Ritualistic Songs. (International Conference of RC25 ISA)

• Writing and Critical reading skills
• Morphology
• English Syntax
• Stylistics
• Discourse Analysis
• Phonetics and Phonology

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• Email: bomondi@au.ac.ke
• Telephone number: +254726177967