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This document provides a summary and analysis of four films that depict different aspects of the Algerian War of Independence against French colonial rule: The Battle of Algiers, Intimate Enemies, Outside the Law, and Of Gods and Men. The films present varying representations of the French colonial military regime, Algerian nationalism, and the relationship between French and Algerian citizens. They show tactics used by both sides, including the FLN's use of women as disguises for attacks and the French military's targeting of civilians. The document analyzes how each film portrays the French and Algerian populations as well as the level of support for and opposition to colonial rule among Algerians.
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2) How migrants experience discrimination and identity challenges in second language acquisition due to power imbalances.
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This document discusses the complex relationships between language, power, and identity. It provides examples of how identities are constructed through language choices and how power dynamics influence these constructions. Specifically, it examines:
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2) How migrants experience discrimination and identity challenges in second language acquisition due to power imbalances.
3) How language tests for citizenship and residency function as gatekeeping mechanisms that exert power over identity construction for migrants.
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Soumia Bougrine, Hadda Cherroun, Djelloul Ziadi, Abdallah Lakhdari and Aicha Chorana
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Speech datasets and corpora are crucial for both developing and evaluating accurate Natural Language Processing systems. While Modern Standard Arabic has received more attention, dialects are drastically underestimated, even they are the most used in our daily life and the social media, recently. In this paper, we present the methodology of building an Arabic Speech Corpus for Algerian dialects, and the preliminary version of that dataset of dialectal Arabic speeches uttered by Algerian native speakers selected from different Algeria’s departments. In fact, by means of a direct recording way, we have taken into account numerous aspects that foster the richness of the corpus and that provide a representation of phonetic, prosodic and orthographic varieties of Algerian dialects. Among these considerations, we have designed a rich speech topics and content. The annotations provided are some useful information related to the speakers, time-aligned orthographic word transcription. Many potential uses can be considered such as speaker/dialect identification and computational linguistic for Algerian sub-dialects. In its preliminary version, our corpus encompasses 17 sub-dialects with 109 speakers and more than 6 K utterances.
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