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Rachid Meftah

Rachid Meftah

  • Email: edrm@leeds.ac.uk
  • Thesis title: How Foreign Language Emotions, Motivation and Teacher Behaviour Shape EFL Learners' English Language Proficiency in the Course of One Academic Term: A Longitudinal Study
  • Supervisor: Dr Martin Lamb, Dr Christina Sotiropoulou Drosopoulou

Profile

I’m Rachid Meftah, an EFL teacher with rich experience spanning over 12 years. I completed my MA degree in TESOL as a Chevening Award scholar at Birkbeck, University of London. Currently, I’m pursuing a PhD in education at the University of Leeds. My research interests and expertise lie within the areas of foreign language emotions, motivation and language performance. I’m looking at the impact of emotions and motivation on language performance for my PhD project. I’m a current member of the editorial team of the Hillary Place Papers (HPP)–the online journal of the School of Education at the University of Leeds.
Professional memberships:
- International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning
-British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
-TESOL International Association (TESOL) 
-IATEFL
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7824-5604 
https://rachidmeftah.wordpress.com/chevening-2021-22-experience/ 

 

Research interests

I’m interested in the areas of foreign language emotions, motivation and language performance, and I’m looking at these from a ‘positive psychology’ view. 
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE LEARNING
 

 

 

Qualifications

  • MA in TESOL, Birkbeck University of London, 2022
  • Chevening Award, Birkbeck University of London, 2022
  • Secondary school EFL teacher qualification from ENS, Casablanca, Morocco, 2009
  • BA in English Studies, Ibn Zohr University, Morocco, 2008