Ouahmiche Ghania

Prof Ouahmiche Ghania is a full Professor of Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, and Language Sciences at the University of Oran 2, in the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Department of English. She holds two in Sociolinguistics and Language Planning and another in French Didactics and Language Sciences—and a Licence in Theology and Religious Studies. With over 27 years of experience teaching English at the University of Oran, she began her academic career in 1998 as a part-time instructor in the Department of English. Prof Ghania has held several roles, including Editor-in-Chief of Traduction et Langues, the Journal of Translation and Languages TRANSLANG, since 2015, Head of the Translation and Methodology Laboratory TRANSMED since 2021, and Head of the Master's Program in ESP and Specialized Discourses. In November 2024, she was appointed Chair of the Commission of Visibility and Ranking at the University of Oran 2. Her research interests cover a range of fields.

EDUCATION

Baccalaureate in Life and Natural Sciences| 1994 Tiaret
Baccalaureate in Life and Natural Sciences| 1999 Tiaret
Baccalaureate in Arts and Philosophy| 2017 Oran
Licence in English Language Studies| 1994 –1998 University of Oran
Licence in French Language Studies| 2001–2005 University of Oran
Licence in Foundations of Religion | 2017–2020 University of Oran1
Magister in Dynamic Linguistics and Language Planning| 1998–2001 University of Oran
Magister English Language Studies | 2005–2007 University of Oran
Magister in Languages, Literature, and Culture| 2005–2007 University of Mostaganem
PhD in Sociolinguistics| 2008- 2013 University of Tlemcen
PhD in Didactics| 2007- 2012 University of Oran

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory, General Arts and Humanities, Religious studies

Scopus Publications

At the Crossroads of Words and Worlds: Translation, Cognition, and Pedagogy
Ghania Ouahmiche, Yamina Belal, Julianah Ajoke Akindele, Victor Ayomide Fabunmi, Emily Ayieta Ondondo
Traduction Et Langues, 2025
This issue of the journal presents a rigorous collection of fourteen scholarly articles, systematically covering the key domains within translation studies, language pedagogy, intercultural communication, and applied linguistics. Collectively, the contributions offer a comprehensive investigation into the multifaceted dimensions of translation processes, linguistic competence, and cultural mediation across a diverse range of languages and sociolinguistic contexts, including Arabic, French, Spanish, English, Ukrainian, and Tolaki. Several articles investigate translation strategies in media and literature, such as the adaptation of movie titles, comics, and news discourse. These studies highlight the interplay between fidelity, cultural adaptation, and audience reception. Further studies examine the challenges inherent in specialized text translation, particularly within religious discourse, emphasizing the necessity of negotiating ideological, theological, and fine-grained semantic dimensions. Pedagogical approaches are also a core focus in this issue, with studies exploring the efficacy of cultural immersion techniques, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) models, targeted phraseology instruction, and the strategic integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into modern language curricula. Finally, research on communicative competence, sociolinguistic attitudes, and self-translation in political discourse. Further contributions explore communicative competence, sociolinguistic attitudes, and the distinctive dynamics of self-translation in political discourse, shedding light on the intricate relationships between language, society, and professional practice. Taken together, the articles highlight the complexity, interdisciplinarity, and applied significance of contemporary translation and language research. This foreword situates the contributions within current scholarly debates, elucidates their thematic interconnections, and underscores their implications for research, pedagogy, and professional practice.
Crossing The Nexus: Language, Culture, and Technology in a Globalized World
Ghania Ouahmiche, Radia Bouguebs
Traduction Et Langues, 2025
In an era defined by globalization and digital connectivity, the intersections of language, culture, and technology have become central to understanding contemporary communication, education, and identity. Crossing The Nexus: Language, Culture, and Technology in a Globalized World presents a collection of interdisciplinary studies that explore emerging trends and challenges in applied linguistics, literary analysis, translation studies, and pedagogical innovation. Drawing on both theoretical frameworks and empirical research, this volume reflects the evolving landscape of linguistic inquiry across diverse sociocultural and geopolitical contexts. The contributions examine a wide range of topics, from contrastive linguistic analysis and syntactic theory to intercultural education, AI-assisted interpreting, and postcolonial semiotics. Key themes include the complexities of cross-linguistic phenomena and cultural fidelity in translation, investigated through contrastive studies of reduplication in Vietnamese-English literary prose and syntactic exceptions in Arabic and Spanish. Educational innovation is highlighted via the implementation of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) for intercultural competence and the Flipped Learning model in specialized contexts, alongside analyses of structural challenges in migrant student integration in Cyprus. The volume critically engages with technology's role, examining AI's capabilities and limitations in interpreting and handling culturally specific translation challenges like verbified proper nouns, while also demonstrating data-driven approaches to public sentiment analysis in digital discourse. Further contributions explore affective factors in language learning, such as test anxiety among Yemeni students, and the influence of gender perspectives in the translation of Qur'anic verses. Multimodal literary analysis reveals the co-construction of meaning through text and image, and postcolonial semiotics examines narratives of exile and identity. Collectively, these studies underscore the necessity of nuanced, culturally sensitive, and interdisciplinary approaches to navigate the evolving landscape of global communication, pedagogical strategies, and technological integration, significantly contributing to scholarly discourse in the humanities and social sciences.
The Impact of Internet Celebrities on Algerian EFL Learners’ Lifestyle Habits
Salima Khelkhal, Ghania Ouahmiche
Arab World English Journal, 2022
Social media paved the way for the emergence of a new type of celebrity: the internet celebrity. Internet celebrities have changed how young people speak, dress, and act. The present study examines the impact of social media and internet celebrities on the lifestyle habits of Algerian EFL learners. A lot of studies have been conducted on how social media can be used in EFL learning, yet very little is known about their effects beyond the EFL classroom. The findings of this study could provide insights into how excessive media usage could lead to the cultivation of new habits and lifestyle tendencies among young people. The main questions that guided this study were: to what extent are Algerian EFL learners exposed to social media? To what extent do they interact with internet celebrities? And how are they influenced by internet celebrities? One hundred and eleven students of English at Mostefa Ben Boulaid University, Algeria, were surveyed in this study. The findings suggest that Algerian EFL learners are heavily exposed to social networks due to the usefulness and efficiency of these networks as informal language learning tools. In addition to language learning, EFL learners are very attracted by other online content, such as fashion and cooking, which makes them continuously involved with, and influenced by, social media celebrities. Consequently, this continuous involvement with internet celebrities shapes EFL learners’ lifestyle habits.
An examination of reading strategies awareness among Algerian ESP students at the National Higher School for hydraulics
Safia BENSAAD, Ouahmiche GHANİA
Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Promoting students’ knowledge of the reading process as well as their metacognitive awareness of reading strategies has become a crucial issue of ESP teaching and undoubtedly an obligatory subject in higher education. Relevant to this, the present paper tries to examine Algerian ESP students’ awareness and use of reading strategies, especially while reading academic material in English. The study is realized through the administration of Mokhtari and Sheorey’s (2002) Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) to 100 students enrolled in first year engineering classes at the National Higher School for Hydraulics (ENSH), mainly to find out: (1) frequency of students’ reported use of different reading strategies (Global, Problem-solving and Support reading strategies); (2) difference(s), if any, between female and male students’ reading strategies use; and (3) students reported use of any other strategies which are not included in the SORS. Findings reveal that Algerian ESP students, as medium users of reading strategies in general, tend to use Problem-solving more than other categories of reading strategies; the absence of significant differences between males and females reported use of reading strategies; meanwhile, students report use of some strategies other than those mentioned in Mokhtari and Sheorey’s Survey. Consequently, an adapted version of the SORS is designed to fit the Algerian context of EFL for specific purposes. © 2020 JLLS and the Authors Published by JLLS.
Gender positioning in the visual discourse of Algerian secondary education EFL textbooks: Critical image analysis vs teachers’ perceptions
Ziad Khalid, Ouahmiche Ghania
Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
The present study revisits the issue of gender positioning within the visual discourse of three Algerian secondary education EFL textbooks. Unlike many similar previous studies, however, the examination of gender representation in this current research is carried out from a theoretician’s as well as a practitioner’s perspective. First, the selected visual corpus was scrutinized for gender bias through critical image analysis. The seven questions in this framework have addressed the major aspects in which bias can be embedded. Second, the perceptions that secondary education EFL teachers have of this issue were surveyed by dint of a self-report questionnaire which was submitted to a conveniently selected sample. The comparative analysis of the results indicate that while the majority of the images display clear signs of bias against females, most teachers hardly view any imbalances between the two genders as far as visual representation is concerned. This mismatch seems arguably related to the fact that gender bias is still considered a peripheral area of interest by the majority of EFL language practitioners.
Voices of errancy, spaces of silence and traces of writing in the narratives of Fadia Faqir, Leila Aboulela and Assia Djebar
International Journal of Arabic English Studies, 2016

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Algorithmic Mediation and Linguistic Futures: Power, Pedagogy, and Practice in Multilingual Worlds
K Egri Ku-Mesu, G Ouahmiche
International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes … , 2025
2025
Foreword: At the Crossroads of Words and Worlds: Translation, Cognition, and Pedagogy
G Ouahmiche, Y Belal, A Akindele, J, VA Fabunmi, A Ondondo, E
Traduction et Langues 24 (02), 12-20 , 2025
2025
International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes, 7(01)
G Ouahmiche
https://revue.univ-oran2.dz/Revue/IJMLSP/index.php/IJMLSP/issue/view/7 , 2025
2025
Preface: Bridges and borders: Reframing English language education in a digital age
G Ouahmiche, R Bouguebs
International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes … , 2025
2025
Citations: 4
Preface: Crossing The Nexus: Language, Culture, and Technology in a Globalized World
G Ouahmiche, R Bouguebs
Traduction et Langues 24 (01), 12-15 , 2025
2025
Citations: 1
Peer-Review Statements
H Kannan, G Ouahmiche, IA Khan, AS Shibghatullah
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Internet, Education and … , 2025
2025
Reading Literature within a Pragmatic Stance: Convergences and divergences of pragmatics and literary text interpretation
G Ouahmiche, L Boughouas
International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes … , 2024
2024
Preface: Beyond Words: Investigating Language's Role in Shaping Society, Learning, and Identity
G Ouahmiche, R Bouguebs
International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes … , 2024
2024
Citations: 3
Literary Competence in the EFL Context: A Case Study of Undergraduate Freshmen
Y Belal, O Ghania
International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific purposes … , 2022
2022
Investigating the Literary Competence of Freshman Undergraduate EFL Students: A Case Study
Y Belal, G Ouahmiche
International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes … , 2022
2022
EFL Learners’ Attitudinal Perceptions of Corrective Feedback on Their Academic Writing Outcomes
A Beddiaf, G Ouahmiche
Abaad 9 (2), 645-656 , 2022
2022
EFL Learners’ Attitudinal Perceptions of Corrective Feedback on Their Academic Writing Outcomes
A Beddiaf, G Ouahmiche
Abaad 9 (2), 645-656 , 2022
2022
The Impact of Internet Celebrities on Algerian EFL Learners’ Lifestyle Habits
S Khelkhal, G Ouahmiche
Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) 13 (4), 443-453 , 2022
2022
Preface: English Language Teaching and Learning Across Contexts: Insights from Recent EFL and ESP Research
G Ouahmiche, R Bouguebs
International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes … , 2022
2022
The Impact of Internet Celebrities on Algerian EFL Learners’ Lifestyle Habits
G Khelkhal, S., & Ouahmiche
Arab World English Journal 13 (4), 443-453 , 2022
2022
Identifying the English language needs of hydraulics engineers: bridging the gap between ESP academic studies and professional needs
I Hamdani, G Ouahmiche
International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET) 9 (2), 677-689 , 2022
2022
Citations: 10
Language Management in Multilingual Workplaces : Challenges and Barriers
C Hadef, G Ouahmiche
Human and Social Sciences Journal 8 (02), 944-957 , 2022
2022
Citations: 3
Corpus-based Instruction in the EFL Classroom: The Case of Data-driven Learning: ‘Spreading the Word’
M Bessidhoum, G Ouahmiche
Djoussour El-maaréfa 7 (03), 594-613 , 2021
2021
Citations: 1
Preface: From Classroom to Workplace: Evolving Practices in ESP, Translation, and Professional Language Learning
G Ouahmiche, R Bouguebs
International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes … , 2021
2021
Processus de réécriture de la production écrite chez les élèves de 2 AS : de la planification à la production proprement dite
A Kandsi, G Ouahmiche
El-Hakika (the Truth) Journal for Social and Human Sciences 20 (2), 401-423 , 2021
2021

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Gender positioning in the visual discourse of Algerian secondary education EFL textbooks: Critical image analysis vs teachers’ perceptions
K Ziad, G Ouahmiche
Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 15 (3), 773-793 , 2019
2019
Citations: 37
An examination of reading strategies awareness among Algerian ESP students at the National Higher School for hydraulics
S Bensaad, G Ouahmiche
Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 16 (4), 1784-1802 , 2020
2020
Citations: 23
Teacher’s perceptions of classroom assessment practices in the Algerian primary school
M Kerma, G Ouahmiche
Traduction et Langues 17 (1), 124-137 , 2018
2018
Citations: 18
Reflections on the Linguistic Landscape and the Prospects of English Language Teaching in Algeria
G Ouahmiche, A Beddiaf, A Beddiaf
International Journal of Language and Linguistics 5 (1/3), 15-23 , 2017
2017
Citations: 15
Voices of Errancy, Spaces of Silence and Traces of Writing in the Narratives of Fadia Faqir, Leila Aboulela and Assia Djebar
G Ouahmiche, D Sarnou
International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (IJAES) 16 (1), 143-163 , 2016
2016
Citations: 11
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions: A Quest into the Time-honoured Mindsets About Feminineness Scuffle in the Context of Colonization and African Patriarchy
G Ouahmiche, L Boughouas
International Journal of Literature and Arts 4 (6), 104-112 , 2016
2016
Citations: 11
Identifying the English language needs of hydraulics engineers: bridging the gap between ESP academic studies and professional needs
I Hamdani, G Ouahmiche
International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET) 9 (2), 677-689 , 2022
2022
Citations: 10
An investigation of language variation and change among three age-groups: a case study
A Belahcen, G Ouahmiche
International Journal of Language and Linguistics 5 (3-1), 24-35 , 2017
2017
Citations: 9
L'effet de la séquentialité dans le parler bilingue Algérien: Quelques procédés conversationnels productifs dans les codes mixtes
G Ouahmiche
Traduction et Langues 13 (2), 6-19 , 2014
2014
Citations: 7
Matrix-Language Approaches to Classic Code-Switching: the MLF and 4-M models under scrutiny
G Ouahmiche
Traduction et Langues 10 (2), 123-135 , 2011
2011
Citations: 7
Literature in the Algerian EFL Bachelor of Arts degree: Reading Literature
Y Belal, G Ouahmiche
Arab World English Journal 12 (2), 330-347 , 2021
2021
Citations: 6
Caractéristiques et Particularités du Coran entre Structure et Texture
G Ouahmiche
Algerian Review of Manuscripts 12 (1), 6-32. , 2016
2016
Citations: 6
The Dynamics of Language Contact in Communities of Practice: Towards a Plurilingual Approach of Language Processing in Algerian Context
G Ouahmiche
Université de Tlemcen , 2013
2013
Citations: 6
Socio-pragmatic Mechanisms in Bilingual Speech: evidence from Algerian Arabic/French intra-sentential code-switching
G Ouahmiche
University of Mostaganem , 2008
2008
Citations: 6
Socio-pragmatic mechanisms in bilingual speech: evidence from algerian arabic/french intrasentential code-switching
G Ouahmiche
Université de Mostaganem-Abdelhamid Ibn Badis , 2008
2008
Citations: 6
Socio-pragmatic Mechanisms in Bilingual Speech: evidence from Algerian Arabic/French intra-sentential code-switching 
G Ouahmiche
University of Mostaganem-Algeria , 2008
2008
Citations: 6
An Investigation Into The Relationship Between British Civilization Teachers’ Methodology And Students’ Learning Achievements
G Ouahmiche, S Bensaad
Traduction et Langues 16 (1), 1-15 , 2016
2016
Citations: 5
Borrowing adaptation routines in Oran Arabic
G Ouahmiche
Traduction et Langues 11 (1), 15-28. , 2012
2012
Citations: 5
Stratégies d’apprentissage/enseignement de la prononciation: Quel (s) choix didactique (s) pour le français en contexte Algérien (le cas des étudiants du département de …
G Ouahmiche
Université d'Oran -Algérie , 2012
2012
Citations: 5
Stratégies d'Apprentissage\Enseignement de la prononciation: Quel (s) choix didactique (s) pour le français en contexte Algérien?: Le Cas des étudiants de français à l …
G Ouahmiche
Université d'Oran2- Mohamed Bne Ahmed , 2012
2012
Citations: 5

Publications

Ouahmiche, G., & Bouguebs, R. (2025). Preface: Crossing The Nexus: Language, Culture, and Technology in a Globalized World. Traduction Et Langues, 24(01), 12-15. . 1019
Ouahmiche , G., & Bouguebs, R. (2025). Preface: Bridges and Borders: Reframing English Language Education in a Digital Age . International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes , 7(01), 9-14.
Ouahmiche , G., & Boughouas , L. (2024). Reading Literature within a Pragmatic Stance: Convergences and divergences of pragmatics and literary text interpretation. International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes , 6(01), 87-116. 10.52919/
Ouahmiche , G., & Bouguebs, R. (2024). Preface: Beyond Words: Investigating Language’s Role in Shaping Society, Learning, and Identity . International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes , 6(01), 9-10.
Belal , Y., & Ghania , O. (2022). Literary Competence in the EFL Context: A Case Study of Undergraduate Freshmen. International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific Purposes , 4(01), 50-66.
Khelkhal, S., & Ouahmiche, G. (2022). The Impact of Internet Celebrities on Algerian EFL Learners’ Lifestyle Habits. Arab World English Journal, 13(4), 443-453.