Dr. Ewurama Okine
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Education:
Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Graduate Certificate, Texas A&M University
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Language Immersion Course, Universidad de Cienfuegos Carlos Rafael Rodríguez (Cuba)
B.A., University of Ghana
712-707-7036
ewurama.okine@nwciowa.edu
Dr. Ewurama Okine is an applied linguist, instructor and translator with a Ph.D. in Hispanic studies from Texas A&M University. Her teaching style focuses on peer-to-peer and student-instructor interaction with the goal of developing students' language skills and intercultural competence. Among other honors, she was the 2020 recipient of the Honoring Teaching Excellence Award from Texas A&M University.
Ewurama has taught a wide range of Spanish courses, including beginning and intermediate Spanish, oral expression and Spanish for veterinarians – an interdisciplinary course that uses project-based learning to create a digital portfolio with materials for both written and oral presentation. A recipient of multiple fellowships and teaching awards, she has presented her sociolinguistic research at national and international conferences.
"Ghanaian-Nigerian Cultural and Linguistic Transfer in the Spanish and Pichi of Equatorial Guinea," presentation at Linguistics Association of Ghana/Lexical Functional Grammar Conference, August 21-23, 2024
"Gender Agreement in the Spanish of Equatorial Guinea," presentation at Español en África: Pasado, Presente, Futuro, June 28-29, 2024
"Ghanaian and Nigerian Linguistic Transfer in the Spanish and Pichi of Equatorial Guinea," published in Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2024
"New Approaches to the Afro-Hispanic World," presentation at Afro-Hispanic Symposium, November 3, 2023
"Gender Agreement in the Spanish of Equatorial Guinea," presentation at Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, October 12-14, 2023
"Grammar as Concept: The Implementation of the PACE Model in Beginning Spanish Classes," published in Applied Language Learning, 2023
"'Houston, We Have a Problem': Surrealism, Satire, and Ramón Esono Ebale," presentation at Charla de Café, April 11, 2022
"Valor, ACravio y Mujer: Deconstruyendo la Voz Teatral," presentation at Graduate Colloquium, April 22-23, 2021
"Grammar as Concept: PACE in Novice and Intermediate Spanish classes," presentation at ACTFL (American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Conference, November 19-22, 2020
"Codeswitching in Rap: An Analysis of Contemporary Ghanaian Songs,", presentation at 49th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, September 24-26, 2020
"The State of Language and Translation in Ghana," presentation at Ninth Biennial American Translation & Interpreting Studies Association Conference, March 29-April 11, 2018
Instructor and Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Global Languages & Cultures, Texas A&M University.
Instructor, College for Kids and Teens, School for Continuing Education, UW-Milwaukee.
Melbern G. Glasscock Graduate Research Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 2023
College of Arts & Sciences Graduate Travel & Research Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 2023
Honoring Teaching Excellence Award, Texas A&M University, 2020
Lechner Award, Texas A&M University, 2019
Chancellor's Graduate Student Award, UW-Milwaukee, 2018