Professor Alalou teaches courses in French language, French linguistics, and pedagogy; he often teaches Arabic language and culture when Arabic faculty take students abroad. Professor Alalou’s interests are not limited to pedagogy and French linguistics. His areas of interest include Afro-asiatic linguistics (Particularly Tamazight also known as Berber), and North African sociolinguistics and language planning. He is the Sequence Supervisor for the French program and serves as the Foreign Language Education Coordinator. Professor Alalou is the French Credit Evaluator for French and less commonly taught languages in the Foreign Languages Department.