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Item The Psychological and Behavioural Side-Effects of Coronavirus Outbreak (Covid-19) on the Algerian Researchers’ Scientific Work and Academic Plans(2020-06) Khiari, Nor El Houda; Khiari, RimTo date, COVID-19 has affected all life aspects. The impact that it had on education was unprecedented and tremendous. This article sheds light on the psychological and behavioural side-effects of the Coronavirus outbreak on the scientific work and academic research carried by Algerian researchers. This study revolves around investigating thoughts, feelings and perspectives of 202 male and female Master Two and PhD students about how the lockdown impacted their research and on what levels. To achieve this aim, a qualitative method was followed in which an online questionnaire was administered. The questionnaire comes in three languages to cover all educational and cultural backgrounds of the targeted population. The analysis has shown that the majority of the participants (72.8%) believed that Coronavirus crisis and the quarantine have negative effects on their mood, spirits and psychological well-being which basically leads to procrastination and loss of motivation. On the same token, many female participants are occupied with the increased housework and their responsibilities towards their family members, their health and safety. The same sample will be surveyed soon in the future to investigate the longer term impacts of the crisis.Item Undertaking Emotional Intelligence Skills Training to overcome Speaking Anxiety among Non-Native Pre-Service EFL Teachers(2018-12) Khiari, Nor El HoudaWith the growing number of the learners who suffer from Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety (FLSA), it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore its harmful outcomes on their performance and success, especially during their first contact with the pupils, as they will be teaching in the near future. The present study sheds light on Emotional Intelligence skills training as an effective strategy to help learners lessen their speaking anxiety and eventually to prepare them for their professional career. A quasi-experiment is used with two groups of third year EFL students. The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) and the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) were used to collect data about the participants’ FLSA and EI levels. The data analysis has yielded that the assumption that there is a negative correlation between EI and FLSA was statistically validated by the Pearson Correlation Test, concluding that, the more emotionally intelligent the individual is the less anxious s/he will be. In addition, the lack of amelioration in the results of the control group and the noteworthy improvement in the experimental group’s results led us to conclude that the training was an effective strategy in minimizing the FLSA level and therefore, we confirmed our hypothesis.Item Exploring the Effectiveness of Teacher Education Programmes to Enhance Teacher-Students Relationship: The Case of Secondary School Teachers at Ain Beida – Oum El Bouaghi(2020) Khiari, Nor El Houda; Idri, NadiaThe variation in the teacher-student relationship quality can be expected from classroom behaviour. It is also reflected in the students’ academic success, motivation and beliefs about the teacher and the subject matter being taught as well as in the teachers’ professional satisfaction and well-being. The paper aims at exploring the effectiveness of teacher education programmes in preparing EFL teachers to deal effectively with in-class challenging situations and misbehaving students. In pursuance of this aim, a mixed methodology was used. First, a document-based description of “the Educational Guide for Secondary Education teachers” was made. Then, a questionnaire was distributed to twenty educators teaching at different secondary schools at Ain Beida – Oum El Bouaghi. Findings revealed that the Educational Guide for Secondary School Teachers is the only educational document that tackled the social and psychological sides of classroom interaction. Results also demonstrated that no matter how efficient are the teacher education programmes, they cannot equip novice educators with all they need for an effective lifetime teaching. Further, the participants hold different opinions about the importance and the benefits of the training programmes and they made interesting suggestions to improve it. This calls for the importance and the need for continuing professional development.Item Discussion-Based Approach to English Language Teaching and Learning A Digital Dedicated Language Laboratory(2015) Naima Hamlaoui; Nacereddine BenabdallahOne of the most fundamental concerns of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) is to maximize the opportunities of learner-learner talk. Digitalized technological facilities can motivate committed teachers to adapt and adopt innovative ways of teaching oral skills. This article reports on an action research project implemented during one semester with a group of 14 willing Master students at the Department of Foreign Languages, Mohamed Cherif Messadia University, Souk-Ahras, Algeria. The aim was to investigate the effectiveness of the Digital Dedicated Language Laboratory (DDLL) in teaching English through a discussion-based approach. A well designed protocol made up of three types of discussion: framing, conceptual, and application discussions was adopted. The findings revealed that students were able to develop their linguistic, socio-cultural and pragmatic competences. They were also given the opportunity to exploit the various facilities, and tools available at the DDLLItem AN ESP COURSE DESIGN FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS OF ENGINEERING AT BADJI MOKHTAR ANNABA UNIVERSITY(2020-02) Amel AFIA; Naouel Abdellatif MamiThis paper aims at designing a technical English course for postgraduate students of Engineering at Badji Mokhtar Annaba University. The course design is based on thorough needs analysis taking into consideration needs analysis concepts forwarded by Hutchinson and Waters (1987) and Dudley-Evans and St.Johns (1998). Through a pilot study, the postgraduate students of engineering at Badji Makhtar Annaba university declared that they need to have courses in technical English in order to read and understand the newly updated researches in English, to take part in classroom discussions and to be able to write their own final doctoral project article without referring to experts for the translation from French into English. Thus English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course design is expected to be beneficial to the aforementioned group of learners. The needs analysis in this action research was conducted through the use of different tools. The results revealed that all postgraduate students of Engineering need to learn an ESP course for the development of the predominant skills of reading and writing first, followed by speaking and listening and translation as a fifth skill.Item Probing Students’ Future Possible Self as a Motivator for Learning(2023-01) Dr. Haron BourasThe aim of the undertaken qualitative study is to investigate students’ future possible selves. The research involves semi-structured interviews with ten first year English Foreign Language (EFL) students from the English Department at Souk-Ahras University in Algeria to gain more understanding of key issues from their perceptions. The main results uncover that the participants underline the importance of their future projected selves in terms of the language study. Additionally, they underscore the salient role of their Ideal L2 possible self in boosting their future academic success and later professional achievements. Significantly enough, a number of students desire to identify themselves among the world wide populations who speak the English language to communicate with other FL/L2 speakers in the future, and yet providing validity to Dörnyei’s tripartite construct of the L2 motivational self system and its applicability across different linguistic and cultural contexts