Yeneneh Wubetu

Born on 01 April 1990 and brought up in a small rural village in Ethiopia, Yeneneh went to school at the age of 7. He attended his first cycle primary education at Addis Alem Primary School. In 2002, he joined Dima Ghiorgis Primary School, 15 km northeast of his village, to pursue his second cycle primary education (grades 5-8). After completing primary school, he enrolled at Belay Zeleke Secondary School, which is located in Bichena Town, to attend his high-school education in 2006. He, then, followed the preparatory program at Belay Zeleke Preparatory School from 2008 to 2009. Having finished the program and passed the university entrance examination, he studied English at Bahir Dar University from 2010 to 2012. Receiving his BA in English, he began teaching English at Fitawurari H/ghiorgis Primary School in Addis Ababa in 2013. After two years of teaching, he became a Graduate Assistant I (GA I) in the School of Foreign Languages and Journalism at Haramaya University. In the academic year of 2015/16, as per the grant of the university, he joined a postgraduate program to pursue his M.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Currently, Mr. Yeneneh is an instructor at Haramaya University, Ethiopia. His research interests include ESP syllabus design, multimodality and interIntermediality in EFL classrooms, critical pedagogy, academic discourse analysis, and intercultural communicative competence.