
Hicham LatifUniversity Ibn Zohr - Agadir · English studies
Hicham Latif
Doctor of Philosophy
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I am interested in reading and doing research in the following research areas: L2 pragmatics, cross-cultural pragmatics, pragmatics, applied linguistics, TEFL, L2 listening, L2 speaking, and L2 reading.
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This study compares Moroccan EFL learners and American English native speakers' requesting strategies. It particularly investigates the distribution of the three main head requesting strategies, the various requesting sub-strategies and request perspectives. Towards this objective, 122 Moroccans and 36 Americans completed a discourse completion tas...
In the present study, we investigate the potential effects of first language negative pragmatic transfer and target language proficiency on Moroccan EFL learners' pragmatic competence as reflected in their request productions. The data were collected by means of a written discourse completion task from four samples of Moroccan Arabic native speaker...
This study investigates how Moroccan university students of English use modification strategies to either mitigate or aggravate their requests as compared to American native speakers of English. The data were collected by means of a written discourse completion task and were analyzed quantitatively based on Faerch and Kasper’s (1989) typology of re...
Based on Brown and Levinson's Weightiness Formula of face-threatening acts, this study investigates the feasibility of anticipating the degree of (in)directness used by ESL and EFL speakers when making requests in critical incidents. Furthermore, the study also compares the similarities and differences in (in)directness strategies between Moroccans...
The listening skill is one of the most important, but challenging language skills to teach to EFL learners. However, the way it is generally taught in EFL contexts does not seem to be conducive to its acquisition. This study investigates the teaching of EFL listening in Moroccan public high schools. More specifically, it probes into how and how oft...
The current interlanguage study investigates the realization of apologies by Moroccan EFL undergraduate students from two educational levels: semester one (S1) and semester five (S5). Their production is compared and contrasted against the apologies performed by British English native speakers. To this end, a total of 120 participants, including 40...