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Cours: ZIDOUNI Siham

BejaiaUniversity

About This Course

 Welcome to the study of speech sounds!

This course introduces you to how humans produce, perceive, recognize, and organize speech sounds. It is subdivided into two main branches "Phonetics: the concrete, physical aspects of sounds" and "Phonology: the abstract, mental rules governing those sounds".  

Requirements

To successfully follow this course and grasp its Content the students must have:

Ø  A reasonable command of the English language and its different skills, "reading", "writing", "speaking", and "listening”.

Ø  Fundamental understanding and command of the English language grammar.

Ø  Some basic knowledge of linguistic concepts.

Ø  Motivation, self-confidence, tolerance, and patience for in-class pronunciation and oral activities.

Course Staff

Dr. Siham Zidouni

 

Biography of Instructor 

Dr. Siham Zidouni is a university lecturer and researcher in linguistics at Abderrahmane Mira University of Bejaia, Algeria. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Jordan. Her research interests include phonetics and phonology, lexicology, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, semantics, and language studies. She has experience teaching linguistics-related courses to undergraduate and Master's students and supervising Master's research projects and dissertations. Her academic interests focus on the study of language structure, sound systems, vocabulary, meaning, and discourse, with particular attention to linguistic phenomena in educational and social contexts. 

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