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Samir Diouny

Casablanca School of Dental Medicine · Hassan II University of Casablanca

https://researchid.co/s.diouny
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19Scopus Publications
441Google Scholar Citations
12Google Scholar h-index
14Google Scholar i10-index

Research Interests

• Neurolinguistics and language pathology • Reading and spelling development • Diglossia and language/reading acquisition in Arabic • Developmental language and reading disorders

Biography

Dr. Samir DOUNY holds a bachelor degree in linguistics, an MA in Applied linguistics and a Ph.D. in neurolinguistics from the University of Hassan II in Morocco. Currently, He is a professor of psycholinguistics and neurolingustics at Casablanca School of Medical Dentistry in Morocco. Dr. Diouny was a visiting lecturer at the Laboratory of Jacques-Lordat and Brain Institute in Toulouse, France, and a Fulbright grantee on two occasions, once to read for a joint PhD program (1998-2000) and the second as a post-doctoral researcher (2007). He is a fellow member of the Moroccan Society of Neurology and the Clinical Neuroscience and Mental Health Laboratory at Casablanca School of Medicine and Pharmacy.

Education

2010 E-Course in Applied Linguistics, UMBA, USA 2005 Joint Ph.D Program. UNversity of Texas at Austion & Hassan II University,Mohammedia. Morocco. Linguistics. 1986 M.A. Durham University. UK. TESOL 1985 B.A. Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco. English language and Literature.

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. The Impact of Explicit Metacognitive Writing Strategy Training in English (L3) on Arabic-French–English Trilingual Learners’ Writing Outcomes
    English Teaching and Learning, 2024
  2. Cognitive retroactive transfer of metacognitive reading strategies from English (L3) into French (L2) among trilingual learners
    International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
  3. The adaptation of the Object and Action Naming Battery into Moroccan Arabic: Norms for name agreement, frequency, imageability, visual complexity, and age of acquisition
    Applied Neuropsychology Adult, 2024
  4. Cross-cultural adaptation of the Moroccan version of the Mini-Mental State Examination: A preliminary study
    Applied Neuropsychology Adult, 2024
  5. Tense and agreement in Moroccan Arabic agrammatism: Evidence for task effects
    Aphasiology, 2023

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