English Language Teaching in Moroccan Higher Education (PDF)

Hassan Belhiah holds a PhD (2005) in English from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and is currently an Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. Dr Belhiah has presented his research at conferences in the UK, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, Morocco, UAE, and the US. His publications have appeared in Classroom Discourse, Journal of Pragmatics, The Modern Language Journal, Language Policy, and Applied Linguistics.

Ikbal Zeddari is an Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. Holding a doctorate in Applied Linguistics and TEFL, his main research interests lie in the area of second language acquisition. More particularly, he investigates lexico-semantic phenomena at the syntax-semantics interface. He is also interested in higher education pedagogy, with a focus on student experiences and teaching methodologies.


Nourddine Amrous is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, where he teaches courses on e.g. syntax, stylistics, composition, and spoken English. Holding a doctorate in Education (2006), his main research interests include second language acquisition, language teaching, teacher training, and theoretical linguistics.


Jamal Bahmad is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Department of English, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. He earned his PhD from the University of Stirling (UK, 2014) with a dissertation on contemporary Moroccan urban cinema. He specialises in the field of North African cultural studies with a focus on cinema, cities, literature, memory, and youth cultures.


Nourdin Bejjit is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, where he teaches courses on print culture, British culture and history, and world