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Abstract : Teaching writing presents significant challenges, particularly in the evaluation of students' written work. Despite the considerable time that writing teachers invest in reading and comprehending their students’ compositions, they often struggle to provide fair assessments and appropriate scores, especially during examinations. To address these challenges, the present study explores the effectiveness of a paragraph analytic rubric as a tool for assessing students' writing. This rubric aims to unify evaluation criteria and ensure consistent scoring across all students. Developed by the researcher, the rubric has been implemented by second-year EFL writing teachers at the Department of English, Sétif 2 University, during the first semester writing exams over three consecutive years. In this action research project, teachers participated in a questionnaire and focus group discussion that assessed their satisfaction with the paragraph rubric, revealing positive feedback regarding its utility in grading exams. The findings from this research contribute to the establishment of clear assessment criteria for formal exams that require paragraph writing. By employing this rubric, the study seeks to enhance the reliability and fairness of writing assessments, ultimately improving both teaching practices and student learning outcomes in EFL contexts. Keywords: Analytic rubric, Exam Evaluation, Paragraph writing, Rubric creation, Writing teacher.

The diplectanid monogenean Lamellodiscus echeneis (Wagener, 1857) is a specific and common gill parasite of the gilthead seabream Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758, in the Mediterranean Sea. Few isolated molecular studies of this monogenean have been conducted, and its population structure and genetic diversity are poorly understood. This study represents the first analysis of the population genetics of L. echeneis, isolated from wild and cage-reared gilthead seabream from fifteen localities in both the Southern (Tunisia) and Northern (Italy and Spain) regions of the Mediterranean Sea, using nuclear ITS rDNA markers and a partial fragment of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI). The phylogenetic trees based on the newly obtained dataset and the previously published sequences of L. echeneis corroborated the spread of only a single species throughout the Mediterranean Sea. The star-like haplotypes network, inferred by COI sequences, suggested a recent population expansion of L. echeneis. This is supported by the observed high haplotype diversity (Hd = 0.918) and low nucleotide diversity (Pi = 0.01595). Population structure-based AMOVA for two groups (the Adriatic Sea and the rest of the Mediterranean Sea) attributed 35.39% of the total variation to differences within populations, 16.63% to differences among populations within groups, and 47.99% to differences among groups. Fixation indices were significant, with a high FST value (0.64612), likely related to the divergence of the parasite populations from the Adriatic Sea and other Mediterranean regions. Phylogenetic analyses grouped all samples into the main clade corresponding to L. echeneis from several localities. This study provides insight into the genetic variation between L. echeneis populations, and did not show a clear genetic structure between populations of L. echeneis throughout Tunisian, Italian, and Spanish localities, which can be attributed to the considerable gene flow between the populations favoured by the potential for host dispersion within the Mediterranean Sea. Finally, haplotypes shared between wild and cage-reared hosts provided evidence for the potential for cross-infection between wild and farmed hosts in the Mediterranean Sea.

Les pratiques langagières des jeunes en Algérie témoignent d’une très grande créativité et innovation linguistiques caractérisées essentiellement par un métissage qui participe à la vitalité d’une « entre-langues », d’un sociolecte interstitiel (C.TRIMAILLE & J. BILLIEZ) que les jeunes créent et modifient tous les jours. Une entre- langues qui se caractérise entre autre par une abondante activité néologique grâce à l’application de différents procédés formels tels, la troncation, la suffixation, préfixation, composition, déformation, etc., ou sémantique (métonymies, glissement de sens).