Saad, Zohra

Saad, Zohra

Assistant Professor
Foreign Languages

Phone: 718-262-3827
Office Location: AC-3D09
zsaad@york.cuny.edu

Office Hours  
Tuesday  11:00 am -12:00pm 
Thursday  11:00 am -12:00pm and 3:00- 4:00 pm 
By appointment   
Education:
Degree Institution Field Dates
EDD  Teachers' College, Columbia University  Applied Linguistics  1992 
MA  Boston University  Education  1979 
BA  University of Algiers  Teaching English as a Foreign Language  1976 
My research interests lie in the implementation of language planning and the policies aimed at assuring the primacy of Modern Standard Arabic in Algeria. I am also interested  in the attitudes of Algerian language users towards Modern Standard Arabic, Algerian Arabic, the Tamazight language as well as toward the process of Arabization itself, and lastly the Tamazight people’s fight for linguistic recognition and rights.
Areas of Expertise:
Language planning and its impact
Language policy attitudes
Minority language rights
Books in Field Of Expertise:

Ghelli, Samuel & Zohra Saad (editor). Reference Grammar of Contemporary Italian for English Speakerss. : Bordighera Press (, . .

Articles in Field Of Expertise:
Presented Papers, Lectures, and Exhibitions and Performances:

" Language Policies, Conflicts, and Rights in Post-Colonial Algeria " 07/15/09: 11th International Pragmatics Conference.

" Arabic Language Hegemony and the Denial of Amazighe Linguistic Rights in Algeria " 06/3/ 2010: John Jay International Conference: Societies in Transition:Balancing Security, Social Justice, and Tradition, Marrakech, Morocco.

" The Role of Language Revitalization in the Struggle for Language Rights " 06/4/2010: John Jay International Conference: Societies in Transition: Balancing Security, Social Justice and Tradition.

" Language and Identity in Algeria " 07/01/2010: Eighth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, UCLA, California.

" Exclusion, Marginalization, and Minority Language Rights " 6/11/11: Ninth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Granada, Spain.

" Game Over: The Sociolinguistics of the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions " 4/24/2012: IOSSBR Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

" Linguistic Landscape as a Reflection of Changing Policy " October 2012: AMPRA Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships:

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Grants-In-Aid:

PSC/CUNY Grant, Attitudes towards Languages and Language Planning In Algeria. 2011-2012: $3,000.00.

Other Professional Activities and Public Service:

International Pragmatics Association: 2009 to date.

TESOL: 2010 to date.

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Saad, Zohra
Assistant Professor
Foreign Languages