Samir Diouny
Casablanca School of Dental Medicine · Hassan II University of Casablanca
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
- The Impact of Explicit Metacognitive Writing Strategy Training in English (L3) on Arabic-French–English Trilingual Learners’ Writing Outcomes
- Cognitive retroactive transfer of metacognitive reading strategies from English (L3) into French (L2) among trilingual learners
- The adaptation of the Object and Action Naming Battery into Moroccan Arabic: Norms for name agreement, frequency, imageability, visual complexity, and age of acquisition
- Cross-cultural adaptation of the Moroccan version of the Mini-Mental State Examination: A preliminary study
- Tense and agreement in Moroccan Arabic agrammatism: Evidence for task effects
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7325-7761
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RkQ_Ge8AAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36774197300