Mohammed Moubtassime

• Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University

Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) has witnessed significant development, with a growing number of university learners relying on their mobile devices for language learning. However, limited research has been conducted on the influence of demographics, including age, gender, and university level, on students' perceptions of MALL. Addressing t...

This study delves into the various techniques and procedures that could potentially be used in translating songs from Tamazight into English. The corpus for this study comprises translations of two famous songs by the renowned Moroccan singer and composer Mohamed Rouicha, whose artistic genre had a great influence on Moroccan as well as non-Morocca...

Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) has witnessed significant development, with a growing number of university learners relying on their mobile devices for language learning. However, limited research has been conducted on the influence of demographics, including age, gender, and university level, on students' perceptions of MALL. Addressing t...

In an increasingly digital era, mobile technology has become an integral part of our daily lives, permeating various aspects, including education. With its portable nature and wide range of functionalities, mobile devices offer new opportunities for learners to access information, collaborate with peers, and engage in interactive learning experienc...

The market for mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) apps has experienced remarkable growth in recent years, with many learners now relying on these apps to learn languages. However, research on the effectiveness of such language learning tools remains scant. In this study, we provide an adapted app evaluation rubric to fill the gap in the liter...

The COVID-19 outbreak has pushed many countries to take unprecedented procedures to slow down the spread of the virus. Hospitals, schools, colleges, and other educational institutions have been widely closed to stop the COVID-19 virus from spreading among the older and younger communities. The Moroccan government shared that health experts have sug...

Teaching at the Right Level (henceforth, TaRL) is a new trending remedial educational approach being piloted in many countries. It basically matches pedagogical content to pupils' educational needs through various adapted activities after segmentation of pupils' depending on their actual difficulties and needs. In this respect, Morocco has been pil...

Teaching at the Right Level (henceforth, TaRL) is a new trending remedial educational approach being piloted in many countries. It basically matches pedagogical content to pupils' educational needs through various adapted activities after segmentation of pupils' depending on their actual difficulties and needs. In this respect, Morocco has been pil...

Abstract: Morocco has recently introduced the syllable-based reading approach (SbA) in Arabic and French Curricula. Thus, this study aimed at measuring the impact and effectiveness of said approach on Moroccan pupils’ Arabic reading competency as well as how teachers approach it based on the hermeneutic phenomenology theoretical framework. A quanti...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, e-learning has become a required component of all educational institutions such as schools, colleges, and universities worldwide. The offline teaching process has been severely disrupted due to this unexpected event. E-learning is a powerfulinstructional tool that helps pupils achieve their full potential. This paper a...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, e-learning has become a required component of all educational institutions such as schools, colleges, and universities worldwide. The offline teaching process has been severely disrupted due to this unexpected event. E-learning is a powerful instructional tool that helps pupils achieve their full potential. This paper...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, e-learning has become a required component of all educationalinstitutions such as schools, colleges, and universities worldwide. The offline teaching process hasbeen severely disrupted due to this unexpected event. E-learning is a powerfulinstructional toolthat helps pupils achieve their full potential. This paper aims...

Coding for pupils has become a new trend in information communication technology (ICT) education as it is a gateway to the new digital era for future generations where computers are one of the backbones of modern society. In this respect, the present study aimed at investigating the usefulness and impact of teaching coding through "Scratch" (i.e.,...

The global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused one of the most extensive school closures worldwide, sending over one billion students home away from their schools, teachers, and classmates. Governments opted for online education to ensure the continuity of learning. Teachers in Morocco have opted for different tech tools and platforms to des...

The global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused one of the most extensive school closures worldwide, sending over one billion students home away from their schools, teachers, and classmates. Governments opted for online education to ensure the continuity of learning. Teachers in Morocco have opted for different tech tools and platforms to des...

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have become a modern concept in education and new meaningful learning environment for technology-enhanced learning, where huge numbers of users worldwide access free, online-based, open content generated by world-renowned institutions. To provide successful MOOC environments requires recognizing the learners' mot...

This study aims at investigating Moroccan university students' access to ICT tools and internet connection, their frequency and purposes of ICT use and their perceived benefits of ICT use in learning English. The data have been obtained by means of a quantitative study. Research findings indicated that access to ICT tools is still limited among the...

This article aims to define the main facets and challenges of undocumented migrants on the move in Fez city (Morocco) and their impact on neighbourhoods and on society at large. It seeks to measure the integration of sub-Saharan migrants in the host community through the metrics of their participation in economic and social activities in urban spac...

Teachers and teacher educators are among these front-liners, transitioning through a particularly uncertain time in terms of their professional lives and work. The rapid move to online modes of delivery to keep students engaged in learning – from early childhood through to the tertiary sector – has led to significantly intensified workloads for sta...

Self-efficacy, or confidence in one’s ability to do a task, is a key element that affects students’ motivation and performance. For that reason, the main purpose of this study was to collect specific information about students’ self-efficacy and factors affecting it. This includes comparing the differences between three Moroccan universities repres...

Kahoot is a Web 3.0 App that provides quizzes and jumbles in a “game-show” type format. Scores are granted for correct responses and participants instantly get the results of their responses. This study scrutinizes the role of using Kahoot in the enhancement of English Vocabulary of Moroccan EFL University Students. Ninety-seven third-semester Moro...

The Integration of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is one of the top priorities for the Moroccan educational system reform. Alj and Benjelloun (2016) argued that it is difficult to reflect on ICT integration in the Moroccan education system without taking into account the particularities of each school subject. The main object...

This study seeks to survey whether students are motivated to learn English or not and to evaluate the differences within and between three most known universities in Morocco, involving a private one, in terms of students’ English learning motivation. Moreover, factors that make a student more motivated to learn English were investigated. This study...