Research in Linguistics

Aicha Rahal is a researcher in linguistics. Her research interests include language pedagogy, sociolinguistics, language policy, and psycholinguistics. She is the author of several research papers, the author of two forthcoming books on language acquisition, and the co-editor of the books World Englishes and Language Assessment and Design and Validation of Research Tools and Methodologies. She was a former online teacher assistant with the US Department of State and the University of Oregon. She was the laureate of the Africa Award, Liverpool 2019 and the laureate of the TIRF-DDG grant from The International Research Foundation for English Language Education.

• SLA, Acting, and Accents.- Portuguese Loanwords in Italian from the 16th Century to the Present Day.- Language Borrowing and Linguistic Change as a Sociolinguistic Product: A Comparative Case Study of both Algeria and Morocco as Former French Colonies.- Language Choice in Expressing Deep Positive Emotions among Azari Multilinguals: A Qualitative Study in an Iranian Azari-Speaking City.- A Possible Theoretical Framework for the Examination of Hungarian Language Consulting Practices.- Preposition Omission and Preposition Stranding in German Varieties.- Variation in the Production of Consonant Clusters in the Speech Tunisian Speakers of English.- Non-standard or Standard? On the Choice of Accent in German-language Austrian Pop Songs.- Unravelling Bengali Oral Code Languages: A Sociolinguistic and Morphosyntactic Exploration.- Are Singular Collective Nouns Compatible With Plural Demonstratives? Observations from Tunisian Arabic.- On Aspects of Meaning: A Research on Ukrainian Words in Use.- A Cognitive-linguistic Study of the Concept HEARING based on Meaning Descriptions of Selected Phraseologisms.- Desire predicates in Bangla: the Desire Exist versus the Desire Happens or OccursOn Corpus Selection Techniques and Methodological Approaches in Functional Pragmatics: A Literature Review.- Mechanisms of Reformulation in Academic Discourse: A Corpus-based Study.- Corpus-Based Analysis of Prepositional Phrases with the Noun Coronapandemie as a Modifier.- Who Learns Hungarian as a Foreign Language in Brussels and why?.- Application of Resyllabification in Spanish as a Foreign Language Coursebook Audio Files and in Authentic Native Spanish Speech.- A Scoping Review of Literature of Co-orientational Approach: Implications in Education.- A Pedagogical Framework for Authorial Voice development in Doctoral Writing.- A Socio-cognitive Study of Euphemistic Expressions “go to the toilet” across Languages and Cultures.- Words as Carriers of Cultural Memory: A Theoretical Framework.- Cross-Cultural Analysis of Nose Conceptualizations in Persian and American Proverbs.- Scalar Faces: When Good is not that Good: Exploring Scalar Implicatures in the Contextof Face-Threatening Acts.- Explanation and Science Communication Reports in Portuguese Newspapers.- Marketization of Universities on Social Media: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis.- An Assessment Use Justification Study Investigating a Tertiary-Level EFL Achievement Test in Vietnam.- Bridging the Gap between Macro-Level Policy and Micro-Level Practice in Tunisian Higher Education: Students' and Teachers' Voices.