Département des lettres et langue anglaise

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Colonial Travel Narrative to Present Transculturation and Hybridity in Nadine Gordimer’s July’s People
(الخطاب و التواصل, 2018) Belhamidi, Selma
Several South African intellectuals used their writings as powerful weapons against the racial segregationist movement Apartheid that they judged unfair and inhumane. Nadine Gordimer’s devotement to this scholarly struggle is basic in most of her novels, critical essays and short stories. Despite historical context displayed in her works, this world-renowned writer has kept her strong artistic individuality shown throughout her literary style. This paper explores the way in which the relation between history and literature appears reflected in her work July’s People (1981). In this work, Nadine Gordimer records the experiences of Black South African migrants and the falsehood of the liberal bourgeois whites by refiguring colonial travel narrative genre through the plot of Black revolt and White flight to the homelands to offer a nuanced view of cultural exchanges occurring between Black and White South Africans resulting in transculturation and hybridity between the two different sociocultural communities.
DE LA FORMATION INITIALE À LA FORMATION CONTINUE. QUEL IMPACT SUR L’EFFICACITÉ DES PRATIQUES DES ENSEIGNANTS DU PRIMAIRE ?
(Revue algérienne des lettres, 2020) DAHOUA, Sabah
Many educated people are now using the "new" information and communication technologies, are practicing some form of self-study, and are gradually releasing themselves. Defining training definitively in rigid models and procedures, or limiting it to the current mode of intervention, is to condemn it from the start and irreparably to failure, and consequently to neglect the requirements and imperatives of an action adapted to a diversity of profiles. The latter have not benefited from a real initial training closely related to their future mission characterized by diversity and complexity. From the outset and on the basis of this observation, it is questionable whether continuing education, sometimes offered sometimes imposed but almost never negotiated, is not the victim of a misfortune from the start.
Re-creating Literary Texts
(مجلة الترجمة واللغات, 2011) Bedjaoui, Fewzia; Allal, Rym
A translator must always be resourceful in terms of vocabulary and syntactic structures. As for creativity in literary translation, we believe that creativity and translation remain inseparable, that is, translation itself is a creative process. The translation is not simply a transformation of an original text into a literal equivalent, but must successfully convey the overall meaning of the original, including the cultural meaning. Fundamental questions are asked.  What about the question of the translatability of the original style?  Should a translation have the style of the translator?  Can we say that the original literary style is untranslatable? Translation depends on the theoretical knowledge and the practical skill of the translator, a negotiation where the meanings are not translated, but the messages. Indeed, the act of translation goes well beyond simple linguistic transcoding; it is in fact an act of interlinguistic communication. Therefore, the task of the translator connects disciplines and cultures and makes an essential contribution to literature and language on an international scale.
Successful Project Works for Promoting Learner Autonomy of EFL Learners in Algerian Secondary Education
(مجلة الباحث في العلوم الانسانية و الاجتماعية, 2019) Hadi, Kheira
This study is an attempt to contribute in promoting learner autonomy in secondary education in Algeria through the appropriate use of project works. It is a case study designed to investigate how project works are dealt with and whether or not they are really promoting autonomy in EFL learners. Some suggestions and recommendations are provided for both EFL learners and teachers as a helping hand for successful projects works‟ design and presentation.
Some Teaching Tips for Overcoming Challenges and conducting an Effective Online Assessment in Algerian Universities
(Journal of Languages & Translation, 2024) HADI, Kheira
In response to the corona virus COVID-19 pandemic, Algerian university rapidly moved from traditional to online assessment. Assessing EFL students in an online environment without preparation leads to several challenges for teachers and students. The lack or limited technical skills, slow and unreliable internet connectivity, teachers’ different levels in online language assessment literacy, differences in students’ levels in digital literacy, problems in grading and feedback, academic dishonesty and misconduct, are the main challenges. The objective of this research is to explore challenges hindering the process of online assessment at university, and providing suggestions and some teaching tips for the sake of overcoming these barriers and establishing effective online assessment. There is an urgent need to develop teachers’ online language assessment literacy. The attendance of specialized language assessment and testing conferences is beneficial for teachers. Developing students’ digital literacy is fundamental in enhancing online assessment. One of the basic roles attributed to the language teacher is raising students’ awareness of the unethical acts such as e cheating and plagiarism. Teachers need to receive in-service training focusing on online language assessment literacy. Online assessment in Algerian universities is still in its first steps, the above-mentioned challenges should be surmounted for the sake of putting remote assessment in its right path
PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE EFL TEACHERS TRAINING PROGRAMS IN THE LIGHT OF INNOVATION AND CHANGE IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
(Journal of Studies in Language, Culture, and Society (JSLCS), 2021) Hadi, Kheira
Pre-service and in-service teacher training programs are changed in the light of innovation in Algerian school. Though ancient and new training programs do not differ from each other in the level of goals, they are different in methods of training, techniques and areas of focus. Teacher training programs are of paramount importance in teachers’ preparation for the professional life. They are fundamental in the improvement of language education. The Ministry of Education in Algeria recognizes the importance of those training programs as experiences needed to improve the educational system. However, the adequacy of these programs for better teaching needs to be investigated. The presentation deals with training programs and the main challenges facing them among which the balance between theory and practice. This study will be of interest to pre-service and in-service teachers, teacher educators, researchers and administrators keen to create and manage teaching and learning more effectively
Investigating learner autonomy with reference to first year ELT textbook and the system of evaluation in secondary education
(Afkar wa Affak, 2020) Hadi, Kheira
Learner autonomy is considered in the Algerian educational system as a desirable goal and a fundamental objective to improve the quality of learning. EFL learners are supposed to be self-reliant. The textbook those learners are using is supposed to help them along with the system of evaluation to be autonomous in learning. This article is an investigation of learner autonomy in English learning. It is an attempt to find out whether or not the first year ELT textbook “At Crossroads”, and its system of evaluation, contribute to help in promoting EFL learners’ autonomy. The objective of this study is to look for ways and means to promote autonomy in language learning. Two research tools are used, a questionnaire to EFL teachers and a classroom observation. The results of the study demonstrate that neither the textbook nor the system of evaluation play the required role to foster learners’ autonomy as they ought to. Necessary measures are supposed to be taken by teachers, book designers for enriching the textbooks and improving the system of evaluation for fostering the sense of autonomy in EFL learners in secondary education.
INVESTIGATING LEARNER AUTONOMY AMONG EFL LEARNERS AND TEACHERS IN ALGERIAN SECONDARY EDUCATION
(European Journal of Research and Reflection in Educational Sciences, 2017) HADI, Kheira
The present paper investigates learner autonomy in Algerian EFL context. It is a case study designed to investigate learners’ readiness for autonomous learning, and teachers’ roles in promoting it in secondary education. The purpose of the study is to discover whether or not pupils attending English Language in secondary school are ready to be autonomous in language learning. And whether or not teachers are well-informed to foster their learners’ autonomy, this research work is an attempt to contribute in promoting learner autonomy in the secondary education in Algeria. It is in fact, an attempt to expand an awareness of teachers and students concerning the necessity of autonomy in English learning. The study provides suggestions and recommendations about how to promote learner autonomy, and argues that ELT in Algeria should aim at cultivating learner autonomy through attributing new roles for the language teachers and strategy training for EFL learners. Finally, this study insists on the need to integrate learner autonomy in English learning not only as a top-down decision but as a gradual procedure based on training. In fact what both teachers and learners really need is autonomy-oriented training.
Constraints of Successful Assessment within the LMD System in Algerian University: Case of the English Department at Tlemcen University
(Djoussour El-maarefa, 2022) Hadi, Kheira
Assessment is a major subject in teaching and learning process in higher education, it holds importance in the wave of change and innovation that took place in Algerian university, within the implementation of the LMD system. EFL teachers find themselves teaching by a different method and assessing their EFL students differently than they used to. This article is an attempt to shed light on obstacles and constraints EFL learners and teachers are witnessing in the process of assessment in the LMD system, it is a case study held in the English department at Tlemcen university, through the use of two research tools, a questionnaire to EFL teachers and an interview with EFL learners both randomly selected. The aim behind such research is to elevate the veil on these obstacles and give suggestions and recommendations to EFL teachers and learners to better cope with assessment
The emergence of a new discourse for business communication, ‘a case study of e-mails in shipping company’
(2015) KORICHE, Hassiba
E-mail, as an example of electronic medium, has assumed functions which are in some cases associated with spoken language and in other cases associated with formal writing. David Crystal (2001) considers that online language as a new species of interaction, a genuine “third medium”. Business professionals in Algeria have to improve their employees’ English competence in order to be efficient in international trade. In order to prove that e-mail is not only a medium, but a new style of communication as well; 175 business e-mails exchanged between the employees of the shipping company concerned were sampled to identify the rhetorical structure. The analysis based on the corpus reveals features that make up the pattern of business e-mail; it also shows that the electronic channel has an impact on the choice of the language exponents. A wide range of abbreviations represented in letter and number homophones is frequent. Moreover, syntactic reductions are used. The e-mail as a new emerging medium is a new type of discourse. It is a discourse that is developing its own language. In order to bridge the gap between theory and practice, tasks in business communication course should involve students in real business situation to familiarize them with the social features and interactional aspect of the language.
Language and Business Two Meeting Roads: The Case of Business E-mails as a New Emerging Discourse
(2019) Koriche, Hassiba
In daily life one devotes a lot of time to communicating and interacting. We can communicate in several ways as in reading, writing, gesturing, and drawing. Actually, we can distinguish two different forms of communication, and language is a powerful means to express our thought and knowledge to other people. Language serves both business and communication; therefore, persons who have strong oral and written communication skills are highly demanded. Indeed, the ability to communicate increases productivity, it allows the perception of stakeholders’ needs whatever the function is: working for an employer, investing in a company, buy or sell products; communication skills determine the success of business. E-mails which are part of computer-mediatedcommunication have brought their own emergent forms of discourse that need to be described and understood. The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of e-mails used in business communication. This newly emerged medium is a new type of discourse; it is developing its own language. Electronic language is regarded as a new variety with specific features; therefore, the researcher wonders how e-mail as a new emerging communicating genre affects the choice of the language. The analysis based on the corpus which consists of 100 e-mails has revealed the use of a wide range of abbreviations and syntactic reductions. In fact, the function which the language serves is considered as a feature of variation in language use, this is the case of e-mails.
Necessity of english for specific purposes (Esp) for the scientific community at belhadj bouchaib university (Ain-Témouchent). The case of researchers at the department of sciences and technology
(Revue algérienne des lettres, 2022) KORICHE, Hassiba
English has become the modern lingua franca in an economically, scientifically and culturally dominated world dominated by Anglo American countries. Therefore, any researcher must master English, at least to some extent, to reach international recognition and access relevant publications. English for Specific Purposes is here to serve researchers in science, technology, and business, but this is easily said than done. Mastering English is a challenge for many researchers in Algerian universities.
Linguistic Intelligence a Path Towards Effective Communication (The Case of Politicians’ Speeches)
(2022) Koriche, Hassiba
Language and society are complementary elements, their coexistence is prominent for the everlasting of ideas, point of views, beliefs, and convictions. Society is the barrel which embraces people, culture and language. In fact, language is regarded as one of the persistent means of communication which guarantees the constant relationship between people belonging to the same society. However, the use of language varies according to the place, the circumstances, and the different goals. The study of these variations in use is the domain of sociolinguistics. In this investigation, a set of extracts from different speeches of American and British leaders have been selected and analyzed. Actually, the different critical situations as political challenges, decisionmaking, lockdown and social restrictions because of Covid-19 are the reason behind such a choice. The principal targets of these leaders were persuasion and recommendations, therefore; a clever choice of words and rhetoric devices to gain the audience’s mind and feeling was necessary. The selected extracts in use exhibit a wide range of this linguistic tool which reveals linguistic intelligence reflected in the wise use of language and the appropriate combination that serve the goals of the orators themselves.
A Special Language for Business Communication: The Case of Business E- Mails used in three Different Companies
(Fonctional langage, 2022) Koriche, Hassiba
The recent electronic device “Internet” has embraced several means of communication. In the present study, the focus is on “electronic mail” which is part of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC). The investigation considered business e-mails that are exchanged in business communication taking place in three different companies. We explored the impact of electronic medium on the language. If we consider internet as a revolution, it is extended to the language. The emergence of e-mail as an increasingly popular medium of interaction has brought its own emergent form of discourse that needs to be described, investigated, and understood as prevalent discourse form of the future. Consequently, we assumed that e-mail is not only a medium, but a new style of communication as well. Actually, the corpus based analysis revealed features that make up the pattern of business e-mail, besides the language exponents which include a wide range of abbreviations represented in letter and number homophones, acronyms, and consonant spelling. These features conveyed a novel discourse which embraces a hybrid language including speech and writing
Ahdaf Soueif’s Reconsiderations of Arab Women Identities in Postcolonial Intersections
(دراسات معاصرة مجلة علمية دولية محكمة نصف سنوية, 2021) KERSANI, Hasna; HAMZA REGUIG MOURO, Wassila
The present research aims at assessing the narrative strategies that Ahdaf Soueif utilizes in order to establish reinvigorate taxonomy through a tentative relocation of residual colonial paradigm. As a postcolonial writer, Soueif has generously mingled personal and political spheres of her characters that will be in return marked by different forms of hybrid identities. This being the case, this paper intends to discuss the different manners that the writer enrols while she intersects colonial history with the personal journey of Asya and other characters as well. This paper is set to inform how much hybridity alongside colonial desire continues to be a central space of paradoxical interpretations and perplexed ambivalence among characters.
Translating Culture in Postcolonial Arab/Anglophone Women’s Narratives: The Case of Leila Aboulela’s The Translator
(AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, 2020) KERSANI, Hasna; HAMZA REGUIG MOURO, Wassila
Up to the twentieth century, the literature produced by Arab women writers consisted mainly of translations of the dominant Western literary works. The growing waves of intellectuals and writers in the Middle East, especially Egypt, lead to the evolution of Arabic literature as a whole. Coming from the Arab roots, living in Western Europe, and using the language of the ex-colonized, immigrant writers are set to be widely recognised is Western literary canons. Migration is a central theme in much of Arab/British or American literature. From Deleuze and Guattari’s perspective, narratives produced by immigrant writers are said to be considered as minor literature, and they can also stand as a subcategory of it. Such a trend of writings is insignificant when compared to mainstream tradition (like English literature), and a subset of minor literature when other new dimensions are added to, if we may say, mainstream minor literature. This later might be the case of Arab/Muslim women-immigrant literature. The present research work attempts to investigate how critical immigrant women writers such as Leila Aboulela develop narratives where they offer new models of cross-cultural encounters. In so doing, such writings have acted as mediators and interpreters between variant cultures, and they have also forged new literary identities in the writers’ adopted countries.
The leading methodology for researching ideal methods in an ESP classroom
(Birlesik Dunya Yenilik Arastirma ve Yayincilik Merkezi, 2022) Fehaima, Amaria
Studying ESP involves more than simply learning a collection of technical linguistic words; it is about learning how to use English in a particular situation while also including the necessary skills and language learning objectives. The current study aimed to examine the rationale for employing the translation method to teach ESP to third-year computer science students at the University of Tlemcen. This study employed a case study approach. A questionnaire was administered to ESP the teachers in the department of Science and Technology, and classroom observations on third-year students of computer science were conducted. The study's findings indicated that students pursuing third-year computer science courses at Tlemcen University experience a range of difficulties while interacting with professional resources. The proposed translation method in ESP may be incorporated and adapted as an effective technique for ESP teachers and students to improve learners’ language skills related to their academic field
Translation-based task in an ESP classroom: Tlemcen University as a case study
(Birlesik Dunya Yenilik Arastirma ve Yayincilik Merkezi, 2022) Fehaima, Amaria
Integrating translation in English for specific purposes (ESP) teaching and learning is a crucial issue since the last decade of the 20th century. This paper aims to analyse the role of translation as a helpful tool for ESP classes on the use of translation in ESP teaching and learning. Therefore, a case study is employed to describe the necessity of using translation in ESP classes, especially, for third-year computer science students at the University of Tlemcen. A mixed method was used; a questionnaire was administered to ESP teachers in the Department of Science and Technology, and classroom observation on third-year students of computer science was conducted. The results revealed that computer sciences students at the University of Tlemcen faced various hindrances when dealing with professional resources which are mainly at the level of content due to the nature of ESP courses they were exposed to during their studies.
RETRACTED: Pedagogical implications of a blended learning model at Temouchent University
(Birlesik Dunya Yenilik Arastirma ve Yayincilik Merkezi, 2023) Fehaima, Amaria
With the expansion of technology and the rapid spread of Internet use around the world, the supply and demand for education have shifted. In some cases, demographic changes have led to population increases, posing challenges to higher education in terms of demand and supply of education, especially given the global challenges of Covid19. Higher education institutions are researching and adopting pedagogical approaches to meet the changing needs of education in response to various challenges, especially with Covid19. E-learning is one of these modes. This work aims to explore the effectiveness of this new model (mixed education) in English language departments, in particular for third-Year students. It explores the pedagogical issues of e-learning in education for development thus it offers a descriptive study between face-to-face and distance education, which highlights the characteristics and difficulties encountered by EFL Learners. As a result of the study, students found obstacles that hinder course continuity, and they are detailed in the study.
The Significance of Teaching Linguistic Theory inside the Foreign Language Classroom
(Al-Athar, 2021) Hamzaoui, Chahrazed
Linguistic theories have always had some influence on foreign language teaching to varying degrees as they often aid construct the theoretical foundations for language teaching practices. As such, understanding these theories and the significance of their application in language teaching is of paramount importance for language teachers who may lack about their relevance. Many consider language teaching as an area of theoretical linguistics albeit, as it is argued, ‘applied linguistics’ should be remodeled as an interdisciplinary channel through which linguists and teachers can address matters of mutual interest. This paper, first, discusses how various types of linguistic theory - structural, generative, and functional linguistics - have affected foreign language teaching; then, it addresses the prevalence to examine the place of theoretical linguistics not only in foreign language classrooms, but in curricula as well. It also tackles the chief contribution of linguistic theory to language teaching through evaluating its appropriateness for pedagogy in order to convey meaningful and accurate insights about the target language to students. Finally, this paper presents an innovative teaching approach that analyzes language in a scientific systematic manner while focusing on those features of language that are of direct relevance to future language teachers.

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