Professional Communication at Morgan State University in Baltimore, USA. She was born and raised in a bilingual home in Africa. She picked up Hindi, English, Yoruba, Hausa, and Nigerian Pidgin in her childhood, and learned French and Spanish as a teenager—primarily from children. She earned her doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds two M.A. degrees (the first in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), and is Associate Editor of the Journal of English as an International Language, and guest editor of two forthcoming issues of the International Journal of Communication. Please contact her to get a copy of her latest book,The Child Language Teacher.