BONAVENTURE NKURUNZIZA

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Email: 
nichribo@gmail.com
Telephone: 
0788756042
Twitter: 
@bonaventurenkur
Brief profile: 
Mr. NKURUNZIZA Bonaventure is a Tutorial Assistant at the Centre for Language Enhancement (CLE), College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Rwanda. He has been working for the University of Rwanda as a Tutorial Assistant since 2009. He teaches EGP- English for General Purposes, ESP-English for Specific Purposes and EAP-English for Academic Purposes. EDUCATION: Master’s Degree in Development Studies- Kigali Independent University (ULK) 2014 Master’s of Education in English Education (ongoing)-University of Rwanda (2019-2022) Bachelor’s Degree in Education (French-English) – Former National University of Rwanda- 2006 Secondary School Certificate in Languages – Groupe Scolaire de GAHINI- 1998
Research Area: 
• Communicative Language Teaching • Teacher-centered teaching versus learner-centered teaching • English as the language of instruction and better quality of education in higher learning institutions • Empowerment (social, economic, and political) of women in rural households • Pragmatics applied to language teaching (e.g. The teaching of conversational implicature to ESL learners) • Critical literacy in the English language classroom