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Item A Comparative Study of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1855) and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905): A New Historicist Reading(Université Mouloud Mammeri, 2023) SADOUDI Celia; TIGHALTINE KarimaThe present dissertation is a comparative thematic study of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1855) and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905). As a supporting theory, our research paper relies on Stephen Greenblatt’s approach of New Historicism because a literary work is not separated from its historical context. The aim of this work is to show that despite the historical and historical differences that exist between the two selected novels, they share many themes in common among which we cite “class division” and “women’s status”. Following IMRAD method, my dissertation has started with a presentation of the two authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Edith Wharton and their novels North and South and The House of Mirth. In Method and Materials, we have explained the reason of our choice of New Historicism approach. In our analysis of this topic, our discussion is divided into two chapters. The first chapter focuses on the notion of ‘Class division’ in North and South where the Victorian society was divided into two main classes the ‘middle’ and the ‘working’ classes. Also, in the second section of the chapter we have highlighted the issue of ‘Women’s Question’ as a prominent theme in the novel. In its turn, the second chapter deals with the same themes in The House of Mirth including the issue of ‘Social Class’ that divided the American society into the ‘upper’ and the ‘working’ classes, and we have also tended to depict the American “ideal woman” and how she struggled to break the traditional values of the patriarchal societyItem A Dialogue on Ideology and Utopia in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and Boualem Sansal’s 2084 La fin du monde (2015).(Université Mouloud Mammeri, 2021) DAHMANI KahinaThe present dissertation sets out to analyse the dialogue between George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty- Four (1949) And Boualem Sansal’s 2084 La fin du monde (2015). It investigates the portrayed dystopias and the idea of totalitarianism. To examine this point, this dissertation brings into focus the utopian evolution into dystopia. This paper also seeks to examine the influence of the authors’ backgrounds on the creation of their totalitarian worlds and the dialogue that exists between their texts To reach these aims, this paper has relied on Karl Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia and Mikhail Bakhtin’s conception of “dialogism.” This analysis tries to demonstrate that although both writers come from different areas and lived in different periods, they share the same concerns and reflect the same issue that characterized their time. Both have portrayed the rise of harsh totalitarian governments that seem to threaten modern societies.Item A Genre Analysis Study of Master Conclusions. The Case Study: Didactics of Foreign Languages Dissertations Written Between 2018 and 2020 of English Department at MMUTO(Université Mouloud Mammeri, 2022) RAHOUI Samira; HAMADOUCHE HananeGenre analysis has gained so much interest among genre analysts all around the world. Thus, our study aims at investigating the generic structure of the concluding chapters of Didactics Master Dissertation written by students of MMUTO from 2018 to 2020. Furthermore, this study has three objectives. The first one is to clarify and bring to light the different moves and steps followed by Didactics Master Students of the university of Tizi-Ouzou. The second objective is to raise the student’s disciplinary awareness. The last one is to raise student’s generic awareness through explicitly teaching the different generic templates such as Bunton’s (2005) for conclusions. Therefore, to achieve these objectives, Bunton’s (2005) model of conclusions is adopted as a theoretical framework for the analysis. In order to reach the objectives, a move analysisis used to study the moves and steps used in each dissertation conclusion, and the quantitative method is used to report the results. Thus, the findings have presented quantitatively as statistics using the rule of three. The results gathered from this study have revealed that all the five moves are present in the twenty Didactics of Foreign Languages Master Dissertation Conclusions, as for the steps some are fully achieved such as ‘Purpose’, ‘Method and Findings’, and ‘Recommendations for Future Research’. Some others are rarely achieved, as ‘Research Questions and Hypotheses’, ‘Claims’, ‘Implications’. Whereas Reference to Previous Research is totally overlooked. In addition, the results have revealed that the majority of Didactics of Foreign Languages Master Students have opted for an additional step which is ‘Limitations of the Study’. The conclusion to be drawn from the different outcomes shows that Bunton’s (2005) moves are all achieved. As for the steps, it was the student’s choice to include them all or to abandon some because of their lack of disciplinary and generic awareness. The pedagogical implications of this study are primarily concerned with the need to raise student’s generic and disciplinary awareness through an explicit teaching of genre and more specifically, conclusion as a part-genre.Item Abjection, Melancholia, and Revolt in Russell Banks’s The Reserve (2008).(Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou, 2018) Hallou, Kahina; Fettouche, DihiaThis research paper explores a psychological study of Russell Banks’s novel entitled The Reserve (2008).The study relied on Julia Kristeva’s psycho-poetical theory, and drew on some of its significant concepts such as Abjection, Melancholia, and Revolt that are mirrored through The Reserve’s characters. Focus has been laid on the analyses of the psychological state of the main characters and their bizarre and unexpected behaviors. Yet our dissertation was not restricted to a superficial study of Banks’s characters but we have also go deeper into their journeys that were undertaken to search a stable and unique identity. Analysis revolved around what makes them suffer to achieve their expected goals and on their shifting from abjection to melancholia and then to a psychological revolt. This study has reached some of the following conclusions. The first one is that all humans are searching for an identity of their own even though they come from different environments, classes, and witnessing different experiences. The second conclusion is that all the subjects in process revolt to get out from depression but Revolt differs from one subject to another.Item The Absurd in Don DeLillo’s The Silence (2020): A Camusian Study(Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2021) Sellah, KarimaThis dissertation explores the depiction of the philosophy of the Absurd in Don DeLillo’s fictional book The Silence (2020). It essentially aims at portraying how the contemporary world is prevailed by absurdity. This study also seeks to show how the characters in this novel struggle to give meaning to their existence. The first chapter is devoted to demonstrate the contribution of different postmodern conditions in The Silence in reinforcing the presence of the Absurd in the contemporary period. This chapter makes use of Jean Baudrillard’s book The Consumer Society to examine how consumerism acts like a way out from the Absurd. It then, uses Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, in displaying how digital addictions sponsor the feeling of absurdity. This chapter hence, shows how the aforementioned alternatives to the Absurd namely, consumerism and media fail at giving meaning to life. The second chapter explores traits of the Absurd in the novel, relying vigorously on Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus in analyzing the characters, the images, and the themes that convey absurdism. This chapter also investigates Camus’ suggestions to face the Absurd and how all these solutions are employed by the characters. This study hence, seeks to prove that the more individuals are technologically advanced, the less their life makes sense. The Silence thus, reflects an absurdist portrayal of today’s world, with the failure of all alternatives to face this absurdity.Item Absurdism in Paul Bowles’s Let it Come down (1952)(Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2020-09) Akli, Warda; Amara, OuridaThis research aims to study the issue of ‘absurdism’ in Paul Bowles’s Let it Come down (1952) by making reference to Albert Camus’s theoretical concepts on the absurd and revolt, included in “The Myth of Sisyphus” (1955) and “The Rebel” (1956). The main objective of this dissertation is to expose the struggle of the modern man against his absurdist existence. First, we have dealt with the conceptions of ‘meaninglessness’ and ‘purposelessness’ as the main absurdist features that are represented within the novel. We have also discussed the concept of ‘alienation’ as an outcome of absurdism. Second, we have explored the way the protagonist of the novel embraces the absurd, focusing mainly on the notions of ‘rebellion’ and ‘freedom’. As a major result, this study reveals that absurdity still has a significant impact on the contemporary man. For this reason, both the central and the secondary characters of the narrative fail at grasping any meaning in their lives.Item The African as Subaltern in Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson (1939) and Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease (1960)(Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2019) Arab, FatmaThis piece of research discusses the African as Subaltern in Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson (1939) and Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease (1960). This dissertation fells within comparative literature, It deals with the representation of native black Africans as subalterns serving the British Empire .The basic issue we try to raise is that while Joyce Cary’s representation of the black African is an Ethnocentrist and racist one, Achebe ‘s representation is an answer back or a correction of Cary’s stereotypical one. To fulfill this analysis, we rely on theoretical borrowing from the theorist Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks (1952).Item African Socialism in Kwame Nkrumah’s Africa Must Unite (1963) and Mohamed Boudiaf’s Où Va L’Algerie? (1964)(UNIVERSITE MOULOUD MAMMERI TIZI-OUZOU, 2020) REMOUCHE, Tassadit; SLIMANI, FatihaThis piece of research studies Scientific Socialism in Africa during the twentieth century withinthe contexts of Pan-Africanism and Nationalism. The Pan-African aspect of Scientific Socialism is studied in relation to Kwame Nkrumah’s Africa Must Unite (1963) and the nationalist one is dealt with in relation to Mohamed Boudiaf’s Où Va L’Algerie? (1964). While Nkrumah adopts Scientific Socialism in the context of Pan-Africanism as a means that unite all the African countries, Boudiaf adopts it in the context of Nationalism, focusing only on his motherland ‘Algeria’. Scientific Socialism in this dissertation is studied according to its definition provided by James McCain in his article entitled “Perceptions of Socialism in Post-Socialist Ghana: An Experimental Analysis”. McCain views Scientific Socialism as a suitable doctrine that serves the African countries, since each country can adopt it according to its circumstances. For him, Scientific Socialism is the form of Socialism that responds to the African needs, because it is builton observation, experimentation and implication. In fact, leaders must take into consideration the social, economic, cultural and political conditions of their countries, and then they must implement a governmental policy which fits these conditions. In our analysis, we have shown how Scientific Socialism is adopted in Africa Must Unite and Où Va L’Algerie? by referring to the different sectors on which it is based. Our analysis has shown that both Nkrumah and Boudiaf utilize Scientific Socialism in order to bring development in each ones’ society, even though the doctrine is used by the two authors in different contexts.Item Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) and Ira Levin’s This Perfect Day (1970): A Critical Study of an Advanced industrial Society.(Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2017-09) Djelid, Massinissa; Kabene, NaimaThis dissertation falls within social and critical theory. It analyses technological rationality in both Aldous Huxley’s Brave New Word (1932) and Ira Levin’s This Perfect Day (1970). To fulfill our task, we relied on Herbert Marcuse’s theory of “One-Dimensional Man” as it is articulated in his work One-Dimensional Man (1964). In the first part of chapter one, we have discussed the concept of “Technological Rationality” and the way it redefines social institutions. We have proved that Technology permeates labor, religion and educational institutions and changes their basic and traditional functioning. In the second part, we have analyzed both Huxley’s and Levin’s futuristic societies in terms of Culture Industry. In fact, this latter postulates to be a mean of securing the established reality from negation by promoting false needs and amusement. In the second chapter, we have investigated the way technological rationality invalidates the elements of High Culture because this latter represents a threat to the established order. We have also discussed the role of the libido ‘Sublimation’ in the development of High Culture. Albeit we have stressed the importance of sublimation, we have noted that within both societies World State and Family sexual acts are highly appraised. As a result in both societies instinctual drives are repressed. In the second part of this chapter, we have discussed the role of language in both novels. Indeed, we have observed that language postulates for a suitable vehicle of one-dimensional discourse which promotes identification with the system by blocking the transcendental and subversive elements of language.Item The Algerians’ Use of English Outside the School Walls. Case Study : Master Students of the Department of English, MMUTO(Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2019-06) Smail, SarahThe present study aims at investigating the presence of English in the Algerian linguistic landscape, focusing on the students’ use of English outside the school walls in Tizi-Ouzou. Its objective is threefold. It aims first at identifying what has motivated students to choose English as a foreign language to learn. Second it investigates the students’ use of English outside the school walls. Third it intends to discover the place the English language occupies in the present Algerian linguistic landscape. In order to meet the objectives of the study, Ryan and Deci’s Self- determination theory is applied. For collecting data, statistics of the number of students’ registrations from 2010 to 2019 and the number of students who obtained the Licence and Master degree from 2015 to 2018 in the department of English and French were collected. Moreover, questionnaires were distributed to 170 students and an interview was conducted with 12 teachers in the department of English. As far as data analysis is concerned, a mixed method research combining quantitative and qualitative methods has been adapted. The numerical data are analyzed through the SPSS in order to analyze the open ended questions of the questionnaires and the interviews. The qualitative data are analyzed using the qualitative content analysis. The results reached in this study reveal that the students’ motivation towards learning English is related to the social status English is acquiring in Algeria and the opportunities this language may offer. Furthermore, the results of the study demonstrate that the students use English for other purposes than education, they use it in other sectors such as media and business. Besides, the results reveal that English occupies an important place in the Algerian business sphere, thus its threat to challenge other languages is accentuated. Finally, recommendations for further research are providedItem Alienation in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The beautyful ones are not yet born (1968) and Doris Lessing’s The fifth child (1988)(Université Mouloud Mammeri, 2023) MOKRANI Hakim; MAIGA Hadeye OumarThe present comparative study examined the theme of alienation in two literary works namely, Armah’s first novel, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) and Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child. The analysis of the two texts is undertaken from a comparative perspective by using Pascale Casanova’s concept of Literary Affinity as it is elaborated in her book, The Republic of Letters and Harold Bloom's concept of "Alienation", which is developed in book that bears the same name, Alienation. The two concepts represent the theoretical framework on this comparison dissertation. The main objective is to examine the context in which the two novels are produced, draw parallels between the two authors’ lives and literary careers. In addition, we compare the novels’ structures, settings, and the characters' experiences of alienation. The comparative study shed light on the ways on which alienation manifests through oppressive social norms and study their impacts individuals psyche in the selected novels. Our comparison also revealed that Harold Bloom's Concept of "Alienation" is clearly displayed in the two narratives through the profound sense of dislocation, estrangement, and disillusionment experienced by the main characters in their specific sociopolitical and cultural contexts. The comparative analysis demonstrates the presence of analogies in feelings of isolation, marginalization, and loss of identity. By applying Bloom's alienation, we compared the characters' struggles, their relationships, and the societal factors that contribute to their sense of alienation. Finally, through this comparative analysis, similarities and differences in the manifestation of alienation are highlighted by examining its deep moral and emotional impacts on the selected novels’ characters in relation to their role and place in society.Item Alienation in Erdrich Louise’s Love Medicine (1993) and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)(University Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou, 2016-09) KHETTAL, ThinhinaneThis research work is meant to analyze the affinities between: Erdrich Louise’s Love Medicine (1993) and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) in relation to the issue of alienation. To support our research, we rely on Harold Bloom’s theory of alienation; Bloom’s Literary Themes: Alienation (2009).This work discusses this notion referring to Bloom’s concepts namely: the concept of Family, Religion and faith, marriage and cultural belonging. After our analysis, we reached the results that both authors share affinities, first, in the way they present their characters struggling with the surrounding conditions. Then, in the way they develop the different kinds of alienation as prominent themes in both works. Finally, we examine the way they use diction, imagery, details, language and syntax to express their resistance against alienation.Item Alienation in Paul Bowles’s The Spider’s House (1954)(Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2019) Smaili, Nawel; Sellami, SaraThe present dissertation attempts to study the issue of alienation in Paul Bowles’s The Spider’s House (1954). Our aim is to make a psychological study of the novel focusing mainly on the feeling of the characters that is for our best knowledge; no work has ventured to make a study. In doing so, we have followed the IMRAD method, and we have put light on Melvin Seeman’s theory On the Meaning of Alienation (1959). The focus is mainly on his six variants of alienation that any alienated subject may experience: Powerlessness, Normlessness, Meaninglessness, Self-Estrangement, Social Isolation and Cultural Estrangement. Bowles presents his characters struggling with the surrounding conditions from different sides including the cultural, social, political and even the religious ones. He also reveals the impact of these interrelated factors on their psychological state. By approaching Seeman’s theoretical concepts to Paul Bowles novel, we find that though Bowles’s characters endure the same state of being which alienation, this feeling is takes various forms in the same way Melvin Seeman categorizes his six variants of alienation on his mentioned work.Item The Ambivalent Vision Towards Women Liberation in Assia Djebar’s A Sister to Scheherazade (1987) and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy (1990)(Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou, 2022) Dahmani, karima; Bachir, SihamPatriarchy and women oppression have always been an obstacle to women’s progress. Many studies were undertaken by feminist scholars on these issues. The present dissertation carries on the research on this topic which continues to be experienced by women. By reliance on Assia Djebar and Jamaica Kincaid’s novels A Sister to Scheherazade (1987) and Lucy (1990) we depicted the status of women who lived in a male-dominated society. The aim is to vehicle the idea that women are subordinated and oppressed by men, as they undergo oppressive social and cultural norms. Otherwise, women are not oppressed just by men but also by women especially traditional mothers who stick to the old social norms. As a result, this perpetuation of male subordination leads to the reinforcement of the patriarchal regime. However, throughout these two selected novels Assia Djebar and Jamaica Kincaid show that women are able to rebel against the patriarchal norms and challenge men’s control and power, therefore, sisterhood and solidarity are the force that might enable women to speak up their rights and break the restrictions imposed by the patriarchal codes. To sum up, through the novels we reflect the ambivalent status of women in oppressing each other and its effects on reinforcing patriarchy and women’s subversion, as a first vision. Then, we turn the scales to how women help each other through making a sort of sisterhood and solidarity between them and its consequences on women evolution and liberation as a second visionItem An Analysis of the Grammatical Errors Made by Master Two Students in Discussion Chapter of Master Dissertations: The Case of Didactics and Language Communication Students of the Department of English at MMUTO.(Université Mouloud Mammeri, 2023) TAHRAT Thanina; IBEGHOUCHENE HeniaThe current research analyses the grammatical errors made by master students in the discussion chapter. It attempts to identify the most common grammatical errors and understand the underlying reasons behind these errors. To achieve this goal, mixed methods were employed, combining both qualitative and quantitative methods for gathering and analysing the required data. Thus, to collect data, we have analysed a corpus obtained from the discussion chapters of thirteen (13) master dissertations, which were selected randomly. Alongside, an online questionnaire that was delivered to the previous MA students of the English department at MMUTO. The results obtained from the corpus are interpreted following ‘the Surface Strategy Taxonomy’ adopted by Dulay, Burt& Krashen (1982).The outcomes of the questionnaire are analysed according to ‘the Cyclical Model of Self-regulated Learning Strategies’ proposed by Zimmerman (2000). Therefore, the collected data from the analysis of the corpus were presented and analysed through the qualitative content analysis (QCA), while the accumulated data from the questionnaire were displayed and interpreted using descriptive statistical method. The findings of this study demonstrat that MA students made four categories of errors within their discussion chapters involving: misformation, omission, addition and misordering. The results also reveal that both misformation and omission emerged as the most frequent types of grammatical errors made by those students. To delve into the reason behind these errors, the questionnaires’ outcomes show that the inadequacy in the utilization of self-regulated learning strategies is the primary source of these grammatical inaccuracies. Overall, MA students make these different types of grammatical errors due to their limited usage of self-monitoring and self-evaluation strategies during their process of writing.Item An analysis of cohesion, ties and coherence and moves in abstracts and introduction sections of master two dissertations in the department of english at Mouloud Mammeri University(Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2019) Kennas, Liasmine; Haddad, KatiaThe current study focuses on functional grammar and genre analysis. It seeks to scrutinize twenty i students’ abstract and introduction in order to identify students’ weakness in writing in a cohesive and coherent style and reveal the different rhetorical moves followed by master two students at the department of English of Mouloud Mammeri University, Tizi-Ouzou. To achieve these objectives, three theoretical frameworks are employed namely :Bhatia’s abstracts moves(2000) ,Swales and Feak's introductions moves (2009),and Halliday and Hassan's cohesive taxonomy(1976) .This work involves the identification of some terms /sentences which express cohesion ties and coherence and the moves of the aforementioned sections .An additional research tool, namely an online questionnaire has been used to get an idea about the participants’ motivation towards the use of cohesion ties and coherence and the moves as an academic writing. It was found that some abstracts and introductions have not been organized following the same moves. The analysis of cohesion ties and coherence in students’ productions revealed that students’ abstracts displayed grammatical cohesion as well as lexical cohesion, but it has been noticed that students have problems with cohesive ties such as excessive repetition of lexical items, indiscriminate use of conjunctions, misuse of pronouns and the use of pronouns without antecedent. The conclusion to be drawn from the different outcomes, some of the moves has been displaced and others omitted while the additional moves are to be found in some abstracts and introduction. In what comes to cohesion and coherence, some ties are to be found while others are absent.Item Analysis of Reference Cohesion Errors in Students’ Compositions: A Case of the Department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University(Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou, 2014) Belgacem, LeilaThis study is an attempt to analyze the reference cohesion errors students made in their writings. It seeks to identify the errors, classify them and then identify the causes of these errors. To achieve the aim of this study, it is based on analyzing one hundred argumentative essays written by third year LMD students of the department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi Ouzou, during the academic year 2013/2014.In doing so reference is made to Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) classification of cohesive devices with a particular reference to error analysis approach. The results of the study showed that 185 reference errors were made in the writing pieces, which are divided into four categories, namely, misuse of reference cohesive devises, omission of reference cohesive devices, superfluous use of reference cohesive devices and overuse of reference cohesive devices. The results showed that third year English students at the university of Tizi Ouzou commit reference cohesive errors, which are due to an intralingual factor.Item An Analysis of Teachers ‘Views about the Implementation of Inquiry Based Learning in FEL Classes The Case of the Department of English at MMUTO(Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi –Ouzou, 2022) Debbal, Kenza; Djatit, SelmaThe current study aims at investigating the teachers views towards the implementation of inquiry based learning in the English department at MMUTO to promote students’ skills. Our research is based on the constructivist learning theory developed by Lev Vygotsky, which is a support for this new approach where learners construct their own understandings and knowledge through experiencing the real world, asking questions, and reflecting on real life experiences. In this study, the mixed methods approach is adopted. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used for the collection and the analysis of the data. In order to obtain the needed information, a questionnaire which is used as a research tool was delivered to the teachers of the English department and in order to interpret the data, quantitative and qualitative content analysis were used to analyse their different views and attitudes towards the Implementation of IBL approach. According to the findings of this study, the majority of teachers of the department of English support the use of IBL strategies to enhance learning and to improve life skills such as critical thinking, creative thinking and problem solving.It is also noticed from the results that teachers confirm the use and the importance of the steps of the inquiry model suggested by the constructivist learning theory in TEFL.Item An Analysis of the English language used in Algerian Restaurant Menus(Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2020-10) Berkani, Kenza; Ouali, LisaOur research is meant to be a contribution to the studies that have already investigated in the Algerian linguistic landscape in the field of gastronomy. It involves an analysis of a bunch of restaurant menus written in English or containing words in English. These restaurants are located mainly in Algiers, the capital of Algeria. The present work aims to reach three different objectives. First, it seeks to clarify the diverse factors that motivate the Algerian restaurant owners to opt for the use of English in their restaurant menus as a common language to communicate their customers. Second, it aims to scrutinize the way the menus grammatically constructed. Third, it intends to shed light on the translation problems in the menus. As for the corpus, it consists of 35 menus taken from the restaurants web sites along with an online structured interview with 6 owners of the selected restaurants. To reach our objectives, we resorted to MAK Halliday’s social semiotic approach to language. Our research is qualitative in nature, it draws on data collected from the interview, relying on the qualitative content analysis (QCA) so as to unveil the ideologies of the restaurant owners. The conclusion we have reached is that the universality of the dish name, the geographical situation of the area or the setting, as well as the influence of the foreign cultures involved in our study, are the major reasons that have incited the Algerian restaurant owners to use English while writing the menus. It is also revealed that complex and simple structures are the two identified types of sentences used in the menus. In addition, the most translation problems found in the analyzed corpus are mainly spelling mistakes and word order patterns.Item Analysis of Visuals and Vocabulary in Two English for Tourism Textbooks: English for International Tourism, Intermediate Students’ Book (2003) and Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, Global Edition(2021)(Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou, 2022) BOUDJENNAH, Sarah; MOUSSAOUI, HananeThe present research work is an attempt to analyze two ESP textbooks designed for teaching English for Tourism Purposes (ETP). The first textbook is entitled English for International Tourism, Intermediate Students’ Book (2003) and the other is entitled Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, Global Edition (2021). Visual resources and vocabulary are the main focus in this study. Therefore, in order to conduct the analysis we have opted for two checklists: Yazdanmehr and Shoghi’s (2014) checklist based on the visual resources and Hussin, et. al. (2015) checklist based on vocabulary. The aim in this dissertation is to find which type of images is prioritized; whether instructional or decorative, and also to find whether the visuals, as well as the vocabulary in the two textbooks are appropriate. We advocated that instructional visuals are prioritized, the images are appropriate both in terms of relevance to content and visual attraction, we also suggested that vocabulary is appropriately presented. In order to analyze the data we have used the Mixed Method research that is a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. According to the obtained results the first two suggested hypotheses are refuted and the last one is confirmed. The findings of the study have shown that the non- instructional (decorative) visual elements are prioritized over instructional ones and the checklist of visual effects demonstrates that visuals in English for International Tourism (2003) are appropriate in terms of relevance to content while those used in Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism (2021) are more appropriate in terms of visual attraction. As for the checklist of vocabulary shows that both textbooks match most of the principles addressed in the checklist.