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Reem S. W. Alyahya – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Assessing spoken discourse during aphasia clinical examination is crucial for diagnostic and rehabilitation purposes. Recent approaches have been developed to quantify content word fluency (CWF) and informativeness of spoken discourse without the need to perform time-consuming transcription and coding. However, the accuracy of these…
Descriptors: Arabic, Aphasia, Language Fluency, Check Lists
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Fatima Saif Aldahmani; Anas Al Huneety; Mariam Alzaidi; Saeed Alketbi; Abdulmaeen Almansoori – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Friday sermons portray patterns of lexical cohesion which can demonstrate how effective communication is achieved. This study proposes a model of lexical cohesion that fits the spoken discourse of Friday sermons in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). To that end, a corpus of 25 sermons was analyzed to identify patterns of cohesion and show the impact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Connected Discourse, Computational Linguistics, Intonation
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Heesun Chang; Amin Raeisi-Vanani – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
The purpose of this study is to analyze the grammatical complexity features of international teaching assistants' (ITAs) mock-teaching presentations and to compare the distributions of these features to those found in the Oral English Proficiency Test (a local ITA assessment), university classroom teaching, conversation, and academic writing. The…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Assistants, Oral Language, Language Proficiency