Professor Adebukunola A. ATOLAGBE, PhD, MNAL is a highly respected Professor of English Language at the Lagos State University. Her areas of interest are Phonology, Discourse Analysis and English as a Second Language. Her research work and publications also include the Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics fields. She has been teaching passionately at tertiary level for over three decades, focusing on Practical Spoken English in particular.