This book is an academic platform that brings to the fore various issues vis-à-vis the teaching of English in Morocco. It provides insightful findings and important implications for the educational landscape, including teaching practices in both secondary and tertiary education. As such the book will be useful for teachers, university professors, researchers and stakeholders. The findings obtained in each contribution are in line with many recent trends in English language teaching which aim at meeting the expectations of the 21st century learner.

This book explores the global spread of English and its ramifications for the status of English in Morocco. It sheds light on motivational issues in English language teaching and learning in Moroccan higher education and examines various teaching practices in terms of: teaching effectiveness, assessment and evaluation, written feedback, English-Arabic translation, and undergraduate supervision. In addition to identifying critical issues in the discipline of English studies and the main challenges facing English departments from historical, institutional, and pedagogical perspectives, it suggests strategies for addressing and overcoming them.

This book is an academic platform that brings to the fore various issues vis-à-vis the teaching of English in Morocco. It provides insightful findings and important implications for the educational landscape, including teaching practices in both secondary and tertiary education. As such the book will be useful for teachers, university professors, researchers and stakeholders. The findings obtained in each contribution are in line with many recent trends in English language teaching which aim at meeting the expectations of the 21st century learner.

In this book, I attempt to show how colonial and postcolonial political forces have endeavoured to reconstruct the national identity of Morocco, on the basis of cultural representations and ideological constructions closely related to nationalist and ethnolinguistic trends. I discuss how the issue of language is at the centre of the current cultural and political debates in Morocco. The present book is an investigation of the ramifications of multilingualism for language choice patterns and attitudes among Moroccans. More importantly, the book assesses the roles played by linguistic and cultural factors in the development and evolution of Moroccan society. It also focuses on the impact of multilingualism on cultural authenticity and national identity. Having been involved in research on language and culture for many years, I am particularly interested in linguistic and cultural assimilation or alienation, and under what conditions it takes place, especially today that more and more Moroccans speak French and are influenced by Western social behaviour more than ever before. In the process, I provide the reader with an updated description of the different facets of language use, language maintenance and shift, and language attitudes, focusing on the linguistic situation whose analysis is often blurred by emotional reactions, ideological discourses, political biases, simplistic assessments, and ethnolinguistic identities.