Amina Hamdoud

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Associate professor at Teacher training school

Scientific inquiry is a complex process that requires objectivity and rigour to achieve valid outcomes. In most developing countries, such as Algeria, researchers are attempting to produce high quality research studies through the employment of adequate tools and methodologies. However, there seems to be a prevalent reliance on individualistic cont...

Teaching English as a Foreign Language has been the subject of inquiry over the years. How to develop effective teaching methods? How to improve teaching quality? What materials to use? How to integrate technology for a better teaching of the FL? and many more questions are frequently posed about ways of teaching, instructional means, the learners,...

Educational research plays a crucial role in teacher education programs and training. Basic research has been a subject of concern and study in different Algerian universities and higher education institutions and schools. However, action research as practical research remains a theoretical subject in research methodology classes. This case study a...

Metacognitive monitoring, as a key component of general metacognition, is part and parcel of most of the academic activities students at university are involved in. It refers to ‘learners’ estimates of their own knowledge, that is, learners’ knowledge of strategies that support cognition and their knowledge of conditions that dictate when and how...

Metacognitive knowledge refers to one’s awareness of cognitive processes and actions. It is the initial stage of metacognitive thinking without which upcoming thought operations are not possibly accomplished. This Mixed Methods study was conducted to describe undergraduate students’ metacognitive knowledge in EFL reading and writing. It relied on t...