MORPHOLOGY OF HASSANIYA Research Paper Proposal Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Vedhili ID:28341 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT – Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences UNIVERSITY OF NOUAKCHOTT AL ASSRIYA 2019 SPECIALIZED REPORTS & PRESENTATIONS’ WORKSHOPS S

TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION ABSTRACT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMS I. INTRODUCTION – Rationale – Research problem – Research question – Literature review – Hypothesis / Objectives – Research design (approach, method, techniques, sampling, data collection, data analysis) II. OUTLINE/CONTENT – Theme 1 – Theme 2 – Theme 3 III. CONCLUSION APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY

RATIONALE Area of research: Morphology Research problem: Exploring the main difficulties that foreign learners suffer from in studying the structure of Hassaniya as it is unstudied language. Interest of the topic: to solve the problem of Hassaniya difficulties of structures that foreign learners suffer from in studying it.

RESEARCH QUESTION Formulate the question: what can be done to simplify the challenging structures of Hassaniya for new learners? Key characteristics It is researchable. It is significant. It is workable

LITERATURE REVIEW Keys works :L'arabe médian parlé par les arabophones de Mauritanie: Etude morphosyntaxique. Thèse de 3ème cycle, Université de Paris V. Keys authors: Catherine Taine-Cheikh Main contributions: Contributed to the study of Hassaniya

HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES The goal of this work is to get more understanding and to explore the morphology of Hassaniya to produce a reference that can help the learners of this language, a reference that will be reliable and the first of its kind.

RESEARCH DESIGN Approach :Interview and the Questionnaire Method :Qualitative and Quantitative Sampling: BP workers who have lived in Mauritania for two years or more. Data collection: Interview and the Questionnaire Data analysis: Content analysis and Framework analysis.

OUTLINE/CONTENT Theme 1 What can be done to simplify the morphology of Hassaniya for the learners? Theme 2 What are the most challenging morphological structures in Hassaniya for new learners? Theme 3 How to make morphology of Hassaniya easily comprehensible?

CONCLUSION At the end, this research paper attempts to explore the problem of the morphology of Hassaniya to produce a reference for the foreign learners. We believe that this information will be off value to anyone interested in words, for whatever reason; to anyone interested in dictionaries and how they represent the aspects of words we deal with here; to anyone involved in developing the vocabularies of native and non- native speakers of Hassaniya.

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