Staff Profiles

BA (Humanities) and Post Graduate Diploma In Education 

Masters’ Degree in English Language Teaching for Specific Purposes (MA in ESP-1998)- University of Warwick 

PhD in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (2011- University of Warwick)

Senior lecturer  in the  Communication and Study Skills Unit. Dr Ramoroka holds a Masters’ Degree in English Language Teaching for Specific Purposes (MA in ESP-1998) and a PhD in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (2011) from the University of Warwick in the UK. Her research interests are in written academic discourse analysis and corpus-based textual analysis and and academic literacies'  approach to teaching academic writing. She has a wealth of experience in teaching English for Academic Purposes courses at the University of Botswana and in other contexts . 

Her approach to teaching and researching academic writing is influenced by the academic literacies perspective which views academic writing as socially situated (in the disciplines) and that learning to write academically means gaining a range of linguistic practices which are based on multiple discourses, identities and values. 

Teaching interests are in the area of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP), with a focus on Academic Writing at both undergraduate and post graduate level. 

Research interests are in written academic discourse analysis and corpus-based textual analysis and student academic writing support.

Ntereke, B.B & Ramoroka, B.T (2018) “Towards developing academic writing support for graduate students: an emic perspective of post graduate academic writing needs and experiences”. Lonaka JoLT 9, no 2 , 81-95.

Ramoroka, B.T., 2017, ‘The use of interactional metadiscourse features to present a textual voice: A case study of undergraduate writing in two departments at the University of Botswana’, Reading & Writing 8(1), 128. https://doi. org/10.4102/rw.v8i1.128.

Ramoroka, B.T. & Ntereke, B.B. (2016). Improving transferability of writing skills from an EAP course to content courses: A case of ESL students at University of Botswana. NAWA: Journal of Language & Communication 10(1) pp. 4-16 available from Ebscohost

Ramoroka, B.T. (2014) ‘Integration of sources in academic writing: A corpus-based study of citation practices in essay writing in two departments at the University of Botswana’, Reading & Writing 5(1), Art. #41, 7 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/rw.v5i1.41