Fethi Mansouri
List of John Benjamins publications in which Fethi Mansouri is involved.
2026 Navigating the ideological tide: Discourses on “Mainstreaming” social service provision for multicultural communities in Australia from 1996 to 2021 Journal of Language and Politics 25:1, pp. 97–118 | Article
This paper examines if and how policy discourses about social service provisions to multicultural communities are affected by the so-called backlash against multiculturalism, which began in Europe and the UK, and how this backlash has influenced Australia. Ideological approaches to social policy… read more
2011 Teaching Studying Processability Theory: An Introductory Textbook, Pienemann, Manfred and Jörg-U. Keßler (eds.), pp. 149–156 | Article
In this chapter one of the key components of Processability Theory for classroom applications is introduced: Teaching a foreign language is constrained by the PT hierarchy. This has been known as the “Teachability Hypothesis” introduced by Pienemann in 1984. This chapter summarizes the Teachability… read more
2005 4. Agreement morphology in Arabic as a second language: Typological features and their processing implications Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory, Pienemann, Manfred (ed.), pp. 117–153 | Chapter
2005 The pedagogic effectiveness of developmental readiness in ESL grammar instruction Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 28:1, pp. 81–99 | Article
The project reported in this paper aims to test the concept of learner developmental readiness’ and its pedagogic effectiveness in the teaching of foreign language grammar. It focuses on the teaching of English as a second language (ESL) in a formal classroom context. The aim is to ascertain… read more
1997 From emergence to acquisition: Developmental issues in Arabic interlanguage morphology Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 20:1, pp. 83–104 | Article
This paper concerns the emergence and development of agreement marking in Arabic interlanguage. It investigates the effect of competing structures (pragmatics, semantics and morphosyntax) on the development of Arabic subject-verb agreement morphology. It is hypothesised that Arabic Interlanguage… read more
1995 The acquisition of subject-verb agreement in Arabic as a second language Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 18:2, pp. 65–84 | Article
The acquisition of complex grammatical structures of a non-cognate language has been reported to be a daunting task for adult learners (Samimy and Tabuse, 1992; Bailey, 1983; Kleimann, 1977). In the case of Arabic morphology, this task is reported to be difficult not only for foreign learners… read more