Papers by Dr. Samia Azieb
المجلة الجزائرية للأبحاث والدراسات, Aug 15, 2021
The present study aimed at figuring out the role of e-learning in enhancing the quality of higher... more The present study aimed at figuring out the role of e-learning in enhancing the quality of higher education in the Algerian university from the point of view of faculty members. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive approach was followed and a questionnaire consisting of 58 questions was used after testing its psychometric characteristics (validity and reliability). It was administered to a randomly chosen sample of 106 members of the teaching staff at Mohamed Seddik Ben Yahia university of Jijel during the academic year 2019-2020. The data were processed using the statistical software package for the social sciences (spss). After the analysis of the data at hand, the researchers found out that e-learning contributes to a high extent in improving the quality of higher education as it provides flexibility, activates the learners' and instructors' roles, and updates the syllabi and programs' contents. Yet, its requirements at the Algerian university are highly limited.
المجلة التربوية الأردنية, 2018
The present study aims at identifying the most frequent syllable-based processes in the speech of... more The present study aims at identifying the most frequent syllable-based processes in the speech of 80 normally developing Algerian children who are acquiring Jijilian Spoken Arabic (JSA) natively, and accounting for that within an Optimality Theory (OT) framework. The children's ages ranged between 1;2 (year;month) and 5 years and they were divided into four age groups of ten month intervals. Importantly, this study attempts to determine whether those processes are language-universal or language-specific. A thorough analysis of the data at the researchers' disposal revealed that Reduplication, Weak and Unstressed syllable deletion, Cluster Simplification, Vowel Epenthesis, and Final Consonant Deletion are the most common syllable-based processes in the speech of typically developing Algerian children. They emerged at the age of 1;2 and started decreasing in number and frequency at the age of 3 until they completely disappeared at the age of 5. The application of OT so as to account for such phonological processes disclosed that the acquisition process within the OT framework is synonymous with the reranking of constraints in the sense that as the language of the child develops, faithfulness constraints, which are initially low ranked, are promoted and markedness constraints, which are initially high-ranked, are demoted.
This study seeks to unravel the patterns governing noun diminutive formation in Jijilian Spoken A... more This study seeks to unravel the patterns governing noun diminutive formation in Jijilian Spoken Arabic (JSA), a dialect of Algerian Arabic, and accounting for that within an Optimality Theory framework. A thorough analysis of the data at the researchers' disposal revealed that diminutivization in JSA is based on the patterns /CCi:jVC/ (masculine nouns) and /CCi:CV/ (feminine nouns) for tri-consonantal noun stems that surface with only two consonants, /CCi: CV/, /CCi:CVC/, and /CCi:jVC/ for tri-consonantal noun stems that surface with three consonants, and /CCi:CVC/ (masculine nouns), /CCi:CCV/ (feminine nouns) for quadri-consonantal noun stems. The emergence of these patterns is a result of applying some phonological processes namely vowel syncope, vowel epenthesis, vowel shortening, glide insertion, degemination and metathesis which tend to differ depending on the pattern being considered. The application of OT so as to account for the phonological processes involved in the lin...
The present study aimed at figuring out the role of e-learning in enhancing the quality of higher... more The present study aimed at figuring out the role of e-learning in enhancing the quality of higher education in the Algerian university from the point of view of faculty members. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive approach was followed and a questionnaire consisting of 58 questions was used after testing its psychometric characteristics (validity and reliability). It was administered to a randomly chosen sample of 106 members of the teaching staff at Mohamed Seddik Ben Yahia university of Jijel during the academic year 2019-2020. The data were processed using the statistical software package for the social sciences (spss). After the analysis of the data at hand, the researchers found out that e-learning contributes to a high extent in improving the quality of higher education as it provides flexibility, activates the learners' and instructors' roles, and updates the syllabi and programs' contents. Yet, its requirements at the Algerian university are highly limited.
The aim of the present study is twofold in essence. First, it aims at finding out the extent to w... more The aim of the present study is twofold in essence. First, it aims at finding out the extent to which cognates' recognition aids Jordanian French-English bilinguals to translate from English into French. Second, it seeks to determine if such recognition can be a good strategy in learning foreign languages. Accordingly, a Translation Elicitation Task containing cognates and false cognates was devised and given to a sample of 31 students majoring in French at both the B.A and M.A levels at the University of Jordan. Findings of the study showed that most students did benefit from their English language background, and thus cognates facilitated their comprehension of French. However, some students participating in the translation test were not mindful of the lexical differences between English and French, thus producing an incorrect interpretation of the text. The study ends with a recommendation for foreign language instructors to teach cognate recognition strategies explicitly.
What complicate the learner's journey are the many factors that enter into play when learning an ... more What complicate the learner's journey are the many factors that enter into play when learning an L2. Age, inter alia, has appeared to figure prominently in the literature with the thrust that younger means better. The entire matter seems to be in conformity with Singleton' assertion
This paper reports on the findings of a study that aims primarily at uncovering the prime factors... more This paper reports on the findings of a study that aims primarily at uncovering the prime factors that direct name choices in Jijel, a province in the Northeast of Algeria. The data were elicited through the administration of a questionnaire to a randomly chosen sample of 150 Algerian males and 150 Algerian females from families in the province of Jijel. The subjects of both genders were taken from three different generations, namely the young generation, the middle-aged generation, and the old generation. Importantly, 50 participants were selected from each single generation. They were asked to identify the factors that they think are prominent in the naming process in their region and to add others if there are any. The findings indicate that the naming practice in the Algerian society has gone through the following path: from a focus on religious, cultural, and family factors in the old generation for both genders, to a more influence coming from the religious factor for both genders in the middle-aged generation. As for the young generation, males' names are still highly influenced by religious beliefs while females' names have shifted towards "trendy or fashionable" ones.
The present study aims at identifying the most frequent syllable-based processes in the speech of... more The present study aims at identifying the most frequent syllable-based processes in the speech of 80 normally developing Algerian children who are acquiring Jijilian Spoken Arabic (JSA) natively, and accounting for that within an Optimality Theory (OT) framework. The children's ages ranged between 1;2 (year;month) and 5 years and they were divided into four age groups of ten month intervals. Importantly, this study attempts to determine whether those processes are language-universal or language-specific. A thorough analysis of the data at the researchers' disposal revealed that Reduplication, Weak and Unstressed syllable deletion, Cluster Simplification, Vowel Epenthesis, and Final Consonant Deletion are the most common syllable-based processes in the speech of typically developing Algerian children. They emerged at the age of 1;2 and started decreasing in number and frequency at the age of 3 until they completely disappeared at the age of 5. The application of OT so as to account for such phonological processes disclosed that the acquisition process within the OT framework is synonymous with the reranking of constraints in the sense that as the language of the child develops, faithfulness constraints, which are initially low ranked, are promoted and markedness constraints, which are initially high-ranked, are demoted.
The present contrastive study is geared mainly towards probing into the euphemistic language that... more The present contrastive study is geared mainly towards probing into the euphemistic language that Algerian and Jordanian Arabic speakers resort to when certain tabooed topics and concepts are brought to the fore. Intriguingly, such an analysis was done in the light of Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory. To this end, the data were elicited by dint of two questionnaires which were prepared by first collecting the needed euphemisms from the native speakers of the two dialects under scrutiny. The first one was handed to a randomly chosen sample of 100 Algerian BA students of English at the University of Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia, Jijel. The second one, however, was given to a randomly chosen sample of 100 Jordanian BA students of English at the University of Jordan. The findings indicate that euphemism is both a linguistic as well as a cultural phenomenon. Accordingly, despite highlighting some similarities between the two cultures under scrutiny in the use of euphemistic terms and expressions, one to one correspondence does not exist. Therefore, taking cognizance of euphemisms in different cultures is a sine qua non for facilitating intercultural communication.
This study seeks to unravel the patterns governing noun diminutive formation in Jijilian Spoken A... more This study seeks to unravel the patterns governing noun diminutive formation in Jijilian Spoken Arabic (JSA), a dialect of Algerian Arabic, and accounting for that within an Optimality Theory framework. A thorough analysis of the data at the researchers' disposal revealed that diminutivization in JSA is based on the patterns /CCi:jVC/ (masculine nouns) and /CCi:CV/ (feminine nouns) for tri-consonantal noun stems that surface with only two consonants, /CCi: CV/, /CCi:CVC/, and /CCi:jVC/ for tri-consonantal noun stems that surface with three consonants, and /CCi:CVC/ (masculine nouns), /CCi:CCV/ (feminine nouns) for quadri-consonantal noun stems. The emergence of these patterns is a result of applying some phonological processes namely vowel syncope, vowel epenthesis, vowel shortening, glide insertion, degemination and metathesis which tend to differ depending on the pattern being considered. The application of OT so as to account for the phonological processes involved in the linguistic phenomenon of noun diminution in JSA indicated that they emanate from a constant conflict between some markedness constraints and faithfulness constraints.
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Papers by Dr. Samia Azieb