PURPOSE Prior studies of discourse comprehension have concluded that the deficits of persons with aphasia (PWA) in syntactically based comprehension of sentences in isolation are not predictive of deficits in comprehension of sentences in discourse (Brookshire & Nicholas, 1984; Caplan & Evans, 1990). However, these studies used semantically constrained sentences in discourse, which do not requi...

Predicting and comparing algorithm performance on graph instances is challenging for multiple reasons. First, there usually no standard set of to benchmark performance. Second, using existing generators results in a restricted spectrum difficulty the resulting graphs are not diverse enough draw sound conclusions. That why recent work proposes new methodology generate by an evolutionary algorith...

This paper aims at assessing the pragmatic competence of Arab EFL learners tertiary level. The learners’ ability to use speech act apology was assessed through a specially designed discourse completion test that consisted nine items. study aimed answering following questions. (1) What strategies do participants express apology? (2) politeness in realizing this act? (3) pedagogical implications ...