Expressive language and cognitive development: diversity and complexity of children's productions.

Development of Fluency, Accuracy, and Complexity in Productive Skills of EFL learners across Gender and Proficiency: A Chaos Complexity Approach

This study was an attempt to investigate the developmental rate of fluency, accuracy and complexity among 12 EFL learners within the framework of chaos complexity theory. To carry out this study, 6 female and 6 male participants in two levels of proficiency (pre-and upper-intermediate) were put in two classes taught by the same teacher and following the same course. Every two months (for a peri...

Cognitive Task Complexity and Iranian EFL Learners’ Written Linguistic Performance across Writing Proficiency Levels

Recently tasks, as the basic units of syllabi, and the cognitive complexity, as the criterion for sequencing them, have caught many second language researchers’ attention. This study sought to explore the effect of utilizing the cognitively simple and complex tasks on high- and low-proficient EFL Iranian writers’ linguistic performance, i.e., fluency, accuracy, lexical complexity, and structura...

Evaluate the Ability of Autistic Children to Use Expressive Language and Receptive Language

Introduction: In early typical language development, children understand words before they are able to use them in speech. Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) generally show impairments in both the comprehension and the production of language. However, the relative degree of delay or impairment in each of these sub-domains may also be atypical and remains less well-understood. Materia...

The Role ofPlay in Children's Cognitive and Language Development

Management of cohesion in the written productions of monolingual Persian-speaking students with specific language disorder

Introduction: Students with specific language impairment (SLI) have many difficulties in producing coherent written texts The goal of this study was to investigate and compare the management of cohesion in the written production of individuals with SLI and their normal peers in terms of density and diversity of connectives, the density of punctuation marks (periods and commas) and density and d...