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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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Zhongling Pi; Fangfang Zhu; Yi Zhang; Jiumin Yang – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Instructional videos for teaching second language (L2) vocabulary often feature an instructor onscreen. The instructor in the video may involuntarily produce beat gestures with their hands, as occurs in real teaching settings. Beat gestures highlight key information in speech by conveying the rhythm of the language, but do not themselves convey…
Descriptors: Video Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction