Hassane Razkane

• Doctor of Education
• Professor at Chouaib Doukkali University

Since the Arab arrival to Morocco, different languages have played a crucial role in shaping the linguistic landscape of the country. These languages have coexisted either in harmony or competition and have modeled and remodeled the language policy adopted by the French government during the protectorate and the Moroccan Ministry of Education since...

The current study investigated eleventh-grade students' metacognitive awareness of reading strategy use in Arabic (L1) and English (L3). In particular, (i) it examined whether there is any association between the use of MCRS in a reading comprehension task in English and Arabic among trilingual learners, and (ii) whether the application of MCRS whe...

This study explored the effect of metacognitive reading strategy intervention in English on helping Moroccan learners reversely transfer metacognitive reading strategies from English (L3) into French (L2). In particular, it investigated whether an improvement in metacognitive reading strategy in English (L3) would lead to an improvement in reading...

While most research investigated the transfer of literacy-related skills from L1 to L2, little research has explored the reverse transferability of metacognitive strategies. This study examined whether explicit training in metacognitive writing strategies in English (L3) would improve trilingual learners’ writing outcomes in English (L3), French (L...

Different studies have analyzed the factor structure of the Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI) (Horwitz, 1987, 1988) through exploratory factor analysis, and the obtained results were partially or not confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. Hence, this study examined the subcategories of Horwitz's (1988) BALLI using confirmatory f...

The present study investigated the type of influence teachers' technological knowledge, technological pedagogical knowledge, anxiety, age, and years of experience have on their time spent on the MS Teams platform. 171 high-school EFL teachers from the public sector in the city of El Jadida, Morocco, were given a questionnaire adapted from Heinssen...

This presentation discusses the impact of a four-month explicit training in morphologocal skills in English on 11th grade trilingual learners' developement of morphological awarness in English and French. It suggests that the linguistic distance between languages plays a crucial factor in the transfer of morphological skills from one language to a...

Previous research disclosed that teachers faced challenges while using different learning management systems during the COVID-19 outbreak. This study investigated teachers' perceptions of Microsoft Teams' functionalities and the extent to which they are related to teachers' time spent on it as well as the various factors associated with their sylla...

This study examined the effects of a four-month intervention aimed to help average and poor readers improve their (meta-)linguistic reading skills, (namely orthographic awareness, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, syntactic awareness, and vocabulary knowledge) in English (L3) on similar skills in French (L2) and Standard Arabic (L1)....

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency remote teaching (Hodges et al., 2020), especially the use of different Learning Management Systems (LMS), has become a necessity to ensure a good delivery of courses online. While plenty of research has investigated the use of these systems in education and revolved around how these platforms ha...

The Linguistic Interdependence Hypothesis [1]–[3] assumes that when academic language skills are successfully acquired in L1, they can be positively transferred during L2 learning process. While the transfer of linguistic skills from L1 to L2 has received considerable attention, little research has been conducted on the reverse transfer of skills....

The Moroccan educational system still uses a monolingual approach to education, favoring the use ofone language as a medium of instruction (MOI) and the separation of the language of instruction fromstudents’ first language (L1) or mother tongue. This is what Cummins [1] refers to as the two solitudesapproach. Starting from secondary school, studen...

Due to the expansion of Web 2.0 and the spread of social media platforms, current media research has shifted it orientation towards media users, their motives, traffic, and conduct in using the Internet. Situated within media audience studies, this paper explored Internet use and traffic among adolescents in secondary school. Drawing on the Uses an...

The current paper discussed the challenges encountered by university teachers during online education in Morocco. It also investigated teachers’ attitudes towards their distance teaching experience. 156 Chouaib Doukkali University teachers, (male=85 and female=71) were administered an online questionnaire via their professional email addresses. The...

Research has documented that students’ proficiency in the medium of instruction predicts their performance in content subject areas mediated by this language (Butler et al., 2004), while other researchers argue that students’ beliefs about language learning influence their language proficiency (Horwitz, 1987, 2008). However, little research has inv...

Metacognition refers to the ability to regulate and monitor one’s own cognitive processes; it entails awareness and control of planning, monitoring, and evaluating. Despite the importance of metacognition, very few studies have been conducted to determine whether metacognitive reading strategies are transferrable across languages and their role in...

Previous research disclosed that teachers faced challenges while using different learning management systems during the COVID-19 outbreak. This study investigated teachers' perceptions of Microsoft Teams' functionalities and the extent to which they are related to teachers' time spent on it as well as the various factors associated with their sylla...

The Linguistic Interdependence Hypothesis assumes that certain L1 language skills can be positively transferred during the process of L2 acquisition. While the transfer of linguistic skills from L1 to L2 has been studied extensively, only few studies have investigated the reverse transfer of skills. This study examined whether training poor rea...

The world has witnessed major changes in delivery modes in education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Being no exception, Morocco declared a full lockdown in March 2020, and this resulted in the use of online platforms to cope with the new situation. The platform that was adopted by the Moroccan Ministry of Education was Microsoft Teams (MT). Hence, t...

Objectives: This paper reports a study that investigated metacognitive awareness of reading strategy use in Arabic and English among Moroccan high-school learners. Specifically, (i) it examined whether there was any correlation between the application of (meta-) cognitive reading strategies in a reading comprehension task in English (L3) and Arabic...

The present paper aims to investigate the way women are portrayed in Moroccan mass media, mainly on television. It argues that women are misrepresented in Moroccan TV programs such as films, sitcoms and advertising. Such shows are laden with stereotypes, distortions and misrepresentations that aim, whether deliberately or unintentionally, at (re)pr...