Ali Alalou
Associate Professor
French and Pedagogy
University of Delaware
117 Jastak Burgess Hall
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Ali Alalou is an associate professor of French and Applied Linguistics. Professor Alalou teaches courses in French language, French linguisticsa and pedagogy. He has taught Arabic language and culture at UD in the past. Professor Alalou's areas of interest also include Afro-asiatic linguistics (particularly Tamazight also known as Berber), and North African sociolinguistics and language planning. He is the co-author of the award-winning children's book The Butter Man. He has served as the sequence supervisor for the French program as well as the coordinator of the World Language Education. Professor Alalou is the French credit evaluator for French and less commonly taught languages in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Professional Activities:
- AATF member
- DECTFL Board member, State of Delaware
- Member of ACTFL
Projects:
Professor Alalou is presently finishing a book project titled: Morocco's Linguistic Landscape: Language Policy and Planning in Context. The book is under contract with Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield. (Forthcoming)
Degrees
- Ph.D., French Linguistics, University of California, Davis
- Certificate in College Teaching. University of California, Davis
- MA, Teaching French as a Second Language. The Research Center for Applied Linguistics and Pedagogy of Language Teaching (CRAPEL) at the University of Nancy II, Nancy, France
- Licence (BA), Arabic Letters and Civilization, University of Bordeaux III, Bordeaux, France.
Publications
Books
- Co-authored with El Guabli, Brahim. Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco during the “Years of Lead" (1966–1988) (Volume 1). Liverpool, United Kingdom: Liverpool University Press, (October 2022)
- Co-authored with El Guabli, Brahim. Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco during the “Years of Lead" (1966–1988) (Volume 2). Liverpool, United Kingdom: Liverpool University Press, (Forthcoming, October 2022)
- Grammar of Tamazight: Central Atlas of Morocco: Functional Approach. LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic Linguistics, 39 (LSAAL). München, Germany: LINCOM Academic Publishers, 2019.
Chapters
- Twenty-First-Century North Africa: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Struggle for Tamazight Language. In Mukewa Lisanza & Leonard (Eds.) (2020). African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century.
- Les langues au Maghreb: Identité, enseignement, culture et politique. In Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue & Ellen Hurst (Eds.) (2017). Les langues en / d'Afrique. Springer Publisher.
- Berber: The Tamazight Variety. The Encyclopedia of the World's Languages: Past and Present. July 2001.
Articles (selected)
- The Sociolinguistic Situation in North Africa: Recognizing and Institutionalizing Tamazight and New Challenges. Annual Review of Linguistics. (Forthcoming, January 2023)
- Co-authored with Bentaher, Adil. IEP Reading Instruction During the COVID-19 Emergency Remote Teaching. Reading in a Foreign Language, October 2022.
- The question of languages and the medium of instruction in Morocco. Current Issues in Language Planning, 19 (2), (2018):136-160.
- “Francophonie in the Maghreb: A Study of Language Attitudes Among Teachers of French." The French Review, Vol. 82. (Feb 2009).
- “Language and Ideology in the Maghreb: Francophonie and Other Languages" December 2006. The French Review.
- “Pragmatics and Syntax of Deixis in Tamazight (Berber): The Case of the Morphemes 'd' and 'nn'." Journal of Languages and Linguistics: International Journal of Linguistics No.10, 2002.
Reviews (selected)
- Review of La poule et son cumin by Zineb Mekouar. JC Lattès, 2022. (Forthcoming, The French Review 96.3, 2023)
- Diglossia and Language Contact: Language Variation and Change in North Africa by Lotfi Sayahi. The French Review, 89(3). March 2016.
- Impersonal and other Agent Defocusing Constructions in French by Michel Achard. John Benjamins Publishing Company. The French Review, 90(1). October 2016.
- Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context by Stacey Bourns and Lindsey L. Myers (eds.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. The French Review 89(1). October 2015.
- The effectiveness of Corrective Feedback and the Role of individual Differences in Language Learning by Nadia Mifka Profozic's. The French Review 88(3). March 2015.
- Language Conflict in Algeria: From Colonialism to Post-Independence by Ben Rabah. The French Review 87(3). March 2014.
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