الرسائل والأطروحات الأكاديمية
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Item An Analysis of Algerian Learners and Teachers’Beliefs and Use of Mother Tongue in EFL Classroom(University of algiers2 Abu El Kacem Saad Allah جامعة الجزائر 2 أبو القاسم سعد الله, 2019) Tihal, Wafia; Hamitouche, Fatiha (Directeur de thèse)This study describes, explores, and analyzes both Algerian secondary school learners and teachers’ use of Algerian Arabic in EFL classroom. It also aims at detecting the different situations that necessitated and still necessitate the implementation of the learners’ mother tongue in two public secondary schools in Algiers (Mohamed Hajress and Rabah Bittat secondary schools). The findings revealed that the language learners and teachers favor the use of L1 in ‘handful’ situations and believe it to be an aid for comprehending difficulties, checking learners’ understanding and clarifying ambiguities. They all wish it not to be used in giving instructions or explaining grammar. The findings also indicate that both foreign language learners and teachers agree that learners’ mother tongue should not be completely excluded from the language classroom.Item A Cognitive Contrastive Rhetoric Analysis of English and Arabic in EFL Students’ Writing(University of algiers2 Abu El Kacem Saad Allah جامعة الجزائر 2 أبو القاسم سعد الله, 2021) MEDJEDOUB, Rima; Hamitouche, Fatiha (Directeur de thèse)The present research aimed at suggesting a cognitive perspective to the Contrastive Rhetoric Hypothesis. To do so, I designed a cognitive analytical framework and identified the cognitive rhetorical patterns in 200 Arabic and English short stories written by freshmen and senior students majoring in English, atan Algerian university. The findings proved that there is a transfer of patterns from the mother tongue (Arabic) to the foreign language (English). Hence, the Contrastive Rhetoric Hypothesis is totally valid among beginners and is so to a considerable extent among the more advanced EFL learners.Item The Effect of Cooperative Learning on EFL First Year Students’ Reading Comprehension(University of algiers2 Abu El Kacem Saad Allah جامعة الجزائر 2 أبو القاسم سعد الله, 2021) AKHRIB, Mohammed; Nedjai, Fatma Zohra (Directeur de thèse)Gender is salient when Cooperative Learning (CL) is implemented in reading instruction, evoking further variability in students’ reading strategy use and achievement; this gender variance requires thorough investigation taking into account the reader, task and text variables so as to support previous studies examining the impact of CL on gender variance in English as Foreign Language (EFL) reading comprehension. The aim of this study, then, is to investigate gender differences in EFL reading comprehension. It explores how gender differences in the sources of text based interest, perceived interest or personal interest, and familiarity with texts, account for the variance in EFL reading comprehension. This study examines the impact of Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) on EFL reading comprehension of males and femalesItem The Effect of Strategies Instruction on Students’ Writing Performance:Investigating the Effects of Rhetorical and Outlining Strategies on Students’ Composition Organization(University of algiers2 Abu El Kacem Saad Allah جامعة الجزائر 2 أبو القاسم سعد الله, 2021) Aït abdeslam, Faïza; BENSAFI, Zoulikha (Directeur de thèse)Writing in a Second or a Foreign Language is a complex activity that EFL students often meet when learning English. Similarly, teaching writing is often seen as much complex as learning to write. Thus, teachers are required to find ways to facilitate it. The aim of this current research is to promote writing strategies instruction as a way to improve Algerian students’ English writing performance. Our particular focus in this study is outlining strategies as well as rhetorical strategies on students’ argumentative essay. To achieve this aim, a quasi- experimental method has been selected as a method of investigation. The results of the experiment show that the experimental group recorded a significant statistical progress measured through the T-test. This study implicates that direct strategies instruction is an effective way to help students improve their writing performanceItem A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO TEACHERS' AND STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF CRITICAL THINKING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEGREE COURSE(University of Algiers 2 Abou El Kacem Saadallah جامعة الجزائر 02 أبو القاسم سعد الله, 2021) Melouah, Asma; Bensemmane, Faiza (Directeur de thèse)Recognized as a skill of enduring importance, critical thinking has witnessed increased attention in recent years, but questions still remain regarding its nature, and what constitutes this intellectual value. As a matter-of-fact, the notion of criticality and its place in higher education has been mostly framed within a Western cognitive approach which tends to favour the centrality of skills of reasoning and falls short of extending it beyond the realms of argumentation and logic. Many scholars allude to some abstract universality in thinking while neglecting its relation to cultural context. This study draws on a postmodernist approach, and is framed within an interpretive phenomenological methodology informed by the ideas of phenomenologists such as Heidegger, Merleau Ponty and Van Manen. The aim is to deconstruct existing conceptualizations of critical thinking prominent in Western academic discourse and suggest a reconstruction of the concept by situating it within a non-Western contextual perspective. This study also seeks to investigate the lived experiences and perceptions of university teachers and students of English in the context of Algerian higher education. Qualitative data were collected from 12 teachers and 20 students of English in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Medea, using semi-structured teacher and student interviews, participant observation and reflective journal documentation. The diversity of these methods allows triangulation of the results, providing insights on contextuality, relationality and embodiment as significantly shaping the meaning and development of critical thinking in the Algerian university context. Other issues emerged such as authority and the reproduction of inequality, power relations, symbolic violence in the classroom, embodiment of certain forms of habitus and capital, fragmentation of efforts and experiences, religion, culture, politics, the educational LMD system and the EFL curriculum which have a bearing on the development of critical thinking. Therefore, critical thinking is not an abstract subject or a universal ideal mode of thinking that can be nurtured in all students, but its meaning and development are related to relational and contextual realities and to socially and culturally embodied practices which are structured, maintained and reproduced in the classroom and the wider field of EFL higher education.Item EXPLORING TEACHERS’ BELIEFS AND PRACTICES REGARDING GRAMMAR INSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH CLASSES(University of Algiers 2 Abou El Kacem Saadallah, 2020) Benghezala, Mohamed; Cherchalli, safia (Directeur de thèse)The present study, conducted in 17 secondary schools in Biskra (Algeria), seeks to investigate teachers’ beliefs and practices in grammar pedagogy. Results confirmed that the majority of the teachers highly valued grammar as it was the key to learn English.The beliefs held by the teachers regarding the value of grammar were behind their tendency to instruct grammar explicitly and deductivelyin their classes. Key findings in this study revealed that the teachers’ beliefs and practices were neither totally connected nor completely mismatched raising awareness of the effect of a number of contextual factors (e.g. learners’ proficiency level and examinations demands) on the relationship between teachers’ beliefs and curriculum implementations.