Languages and conflicts : Arabisation, French and English in the Algerian educational system

Abstract EN

Language is inevitably intertwined with national identity and is intimately bound up with the colonists' language.

Algeria is a multilingual country that was conquered for more than a century by the French.

This what made the issue of language thornier and more complex.

The current paper discusses the different language reforms that were passed and enacted by the Algerian government starting from the independence (1962) when the government introduced Arabization until the implementation of the LMD system at the tertiary level.

Most importantly, the rationale objective that lied behind this research is to shed light on the status of English at the Algerian universities as it becomes the most dominant language.