Title/Qualifications: Ph. D Department/Unit/Section: Literature, Linguistics and Foreign Languages Contact Address: 43844- 00100 Position: Senior Lecturer Email:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Tel:  Office+254-020-8710901 Ext. 4112 Area of Specialization: Sociolinguistics Research Interests: African Languages, Languages in Contact, Sociolinguistics Download CV

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
a). Articles in referred journals

• Kebeya-Omondi, Hilda (2012). “Language and Ethnic Identity: More Perspectives from Africa.” International Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2012, pages 755-771. ISSN 1948-5425. http://dx.doi.org./10.5296/ijl.v4i3.2174 Article is published in an online Journal by Macrothink Institute.
• Kebeya, Hilda (2013). “Inter- and Intra-sentential Switching: Are they really Comparable?” International Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences. Vol. 3, No. 5 March 2013, pages 225-233. ISSN 2220-8488. Publisher: Centre for Promoting ideas, USA. http://www.ijhssnet.com
• Annah Kariuki, Fridah Erastus Kanana & Hilda Kebeya (2015). “The growth and Use of Sheng in advertisements in selected businesses in Kenya.” Journal of African Cultural Studies. Vol. 27, No. 2, June 2015, pages 229-246. ISSN 1369-6815. Publisher: Routledge- Taylor & Francis Group, UK. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2014.976545
• Atemo Christine Nyong’a, Fridah Erastus Kanana & Hilda Kebeya (forthcoming). “The (Re) structuring and functions of an Emerging Sheng among Matatu crew in Kenya.” Manuscript ID 534159001 submitted to South African Journal of African Languages. ISSN: 0257-2117 for peer review in April 2015. http://nisc.co.za
• Kiprop Philip and Kebeya Hilda (2016) “Language and cross-cultural communication: lexical variation in the speech of initiated and uninitiated Tugen speakers.” Chemchemi International Journal of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Kenyatta University in September 2016. ISBN 1563-1028. Volume 10, No. 2, pages 114- 127
• Kebeya Hilda (2016). “Rethinking the official language policy: the case of East Africa and Southeast Asia.” International Journal of Education & Social Sciences. Vol. 3, No. 10, October 2016, pages 23-29. ISSN 2410-5171 (online) ISSN 2415-1246 (Print). http://www.ijessnet.com/vol-3-no-10-october-2016

b). Papers in conference proceedings

• Martin Makokha & Hilda Kebeya, (forthcoming). An Intra-dialectal analysis of Lukhayo: backwash effects on language teaching/learning. Manuscript submitted to Institute of African Studies, Kenyatta University in September 2016.

c). Books/ Chapters in Books/Modules

• Martin Makokha* and Hilda Kebeya (2018). “An Intra-dialectal analysis of Lukhayo: backwash effects on teaching/learning at elementary levels in Busia County,” in C. Ndungo, L. Mwita, P. Ngugi, J. Makokha and D. Ngugi (eds.) From Asmara 2000 to Nairobi 2014: Trends in African Languages and Literatures .Published by Kenyatta University Press, Nairobi, Kenya. Pgs.184-194. ISBN 978-9966-54-100-0
• Fridah Kanana Erastus and Hilda Kebeya (2018). “Functions of Urban and Youth Languages in the New media: The case of Sheng in Kenya,” in Ellen Hurst- Harosh & Fridah Kanana Erastus (eds.) African Youth Languages, New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic development. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland. Pgs 15-52. ISBN 978-3-319-64561-2.
• Kebeya-Omondi Hilda & Fridah Kanana Erastus (2016). “Devolution of governance and linguistic (in) equalities in Kenya.” In Martin Pütz & Neele Mundt (eds.) Vanishing Languages in Context: Ideological, Attitudinal and Social Identity Perspectives. Published by Peter Lang: Frankfurt. Pgs. 51-72. ISBN 978-363167-049-1.
• Hilda Kebeya, Miriam Osore, Pamella Ngugi & Charles Kebaya, (eds.) (2016) Language and Translation: theory, pedagogy and practice. Nsemia Inc. Publishers, Canada (www.nsemia.com). ISBN 978-1-926906-47-8.
• Hilda Kebeya-Omondi & Fridah Kanana Erastus (2016). “Devolution of governance and linguistic (in) equalities in Kenya.” In Martin Pütz & Neele Mundt (eds.) Vanishing Languages in Context: Ideological, Attitudinal and Social Identity Perspectives. Peter Lang: Frankfurt. Pgs. 51-72. ISBN 978-3-631-67049-1
• Hilda Kebeya-Omondi (2002). AEN 200: Introduction to Phonetics & Phonology. Module for Institute of Open Learning- Kenyatta University.
• Hilda Kebeya- Omondi (2003) ENG 302: Second Language Learning. Module for Distance Learning Programmes- The Catholic University of Eastern Africa.