Fawaz Qasem

• Assistant Professor
• Professor (Assistant) at University of bisha

Sensory integration theory (SIT), which posits that the neurological process of integrating sensory information from the environment and one’s body influences learning and behaviour, and the sensory processing measure (SPM), a psychometric tool with versions for individuals aged 4 months to 87 years, are fundamental to understanding and assessing s...

Several countries have experienced all types of education, face-to-face, blended learning, fully online teaching, either before the COVID-19 pandemic, during Covid-19 quarantine period, or post COVID-19 quarantine. Most of the countries have returned to ordinary life after the developing of the COVID-19 vaccine, and various academic institutions ap...

Objectives: This study investigates the prevalence, determinants, and educational implications of sensory disorders in Saudi Arabia. We hypothesize that sociodemographic factors (e.g., gender, marital status), genetic consanguinity, and regional disparities significantly influence sensory health outcomes, including vision, hearing, balance, and soc...

Background The integration of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini, into the field of applied linguistics presents transformative opportunities alongside notable challenges. This study aims to evaluate the role of AI in applied linguistics through a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, O...

ChatGPT is a recent and famous AI tool that has triggered debates about its potential implications in research, education, and enhancing language practices and skills. This study manipulated the SWOT analysis framework and systematic review to outline and scrutinize AI tools, including ChatGPT's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, in...

The Learning Disabilities Diagnostic Inventory (LDDI) is a widely used diagnostic tool for identifying and diagnosing individuals with learning disabilities (LDs). Despite its extensive use, a thematic review of studies leveraging the LDDI in diverse linguistic and cultural contexts is yet to be conducted. This study aims to conduct a meticulous an...

The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into educational systems has prompted an exploration of its efficacy in language acquisition. This study aims to evaluate the role of AI in enhancing language learning processes, focusing on its capability to support personalized and adaptive learning experiences. Utilizing a systematic content...

There is a shortage of studies that have addressed speaking skill with relation to learners’ anxiety in Saudi Arabia as EFL context. Therefore, the current study explored Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety (FLSA) in relation to gender within 64 male and 87 female undergraduate Saudi students from different levels. The study examined the causes of FL...

The Gilliam Autism Rating Scale-Third Edition (GARS-3) has emerged as a pivotal instrument in the diagnostic assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), with its utility extending across linguistic and cultural boundaries. This study endeavors to adapt and validate the GARS-3 for the Arabic-speaking population, addressing the paucity of culturall...

Background The assessment of communication skills in Arabic-speaking children has been challenged by a lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate tools. The Arabic children’s strong communication scale (ACSCS) was developed in response to this need, adapting the children’s communication checklist-2 (CCC-2) to better suit the Arabic context....

Background: The integration of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini, into the field of applied linguistics presents transformative opportunities alongside notable challenges. This study aims to evaluate the role of AI in applied linguistics through a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses,...

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into applied (linguistics) has sparked significant interest due to its transformative potential in language teaching, learning, and research. With the advent of AI language models such as ChatGPT and GPT-4, a comprehensive understanding of their role and impact in the field is imperative. This study p...

Background The Children’s Communication Checklist-Second Edition (CCC-2) uniquely assesses overlooked communication elements such as pragmatics and context use, which are rarely addressed by conventional language assessments. This study focuses on the psychometric assessment of the CCC-2’s Arabic version, tailored to evaluate communication challeng...

Communication disorders in children are multifaceted and often difficult to diagnose accurately due to their complex nature. The Children’s Communication Checklist (CCC) is a widely used diagnostic instrument for identifying and diagnosing children with and without communication disorders. This review aimed to conduct a thematic examination of exis...

This paper examines patterns of gemination in child Egyptian Arabic, with a focus on how gemination functions as a repair strategy, using data from the Egyptian Arabic Salama Corpus. The findings show that the phonological development of Egyptian Arabic-speaking children of geminated consonants correlates with previously established developmental s...

This study investigates phonological substitution patterns in the early speech of children acquiring Yemeni Ibbi Arabic (YIA) as their first language. The research aims to identify the characteristics and motivations behind these substitutions, drawing on data from three monolingual Arabic-speaking children aged between 1;9 and 3;6. The analysis re...

Applied linguists address translanguaging from a variety of angles to comprehend its effectiveness, applicability, and how it supports or undermines social and educational goals in various bilingual and multilingual environments around the world. A small number of studies have been carried out to demonstrate the reality of pedagogical translanguagi...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibits diverse manifestations influenced by demographic factors. This study evaluates these variations within Saudi Arabia, aiming to investigate language, speech and behaviour characteristics across different demographics in Saudi Arabia using the Arabic Version of the Gilliam Autism Rating Scale—Third Edition (A-G...

The study of atypical language acquisition in children with, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is crucial for both practical and theoretical reasons. Understanding the course of language development in ASD can inform potential interventions and treatments while shedding light on the necessary conditions for language development in typically developing...

Recently, Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) has demonstrated significant advancements in a variety of language-related tasks, including machine translation. However, many studies that evaluated the performance of ChatGPT in translation tasks focused on general texts. Consequently, the primary objective of this study was to assess how well GPT...

This umbrella review aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of pragmatic language interventions and existing competing views in improving pragmatic language skills in persons with pragmatic language impairment (PLI). A comprehensive search was conducted to identify qualitative and quantitative systematic reviews that included diagnostic criteria, feat...

This study reviews the crucial role of language in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis and assessment in Saudi Arabia. Using tailored search strings, 206 relevant documents were retrieved from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. An increasing trend in ASD research in Saudi Arabia was observed through temporal analysis. Keyword analysis id...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the phonological metathesis phenomenon in the early speech of Arabic-speaking children. Based on analysis of a longitudinal data from 11 children's speech, the study mainly aims at investigating (1) the characteristics/nature of the phonological metathesis process in early child speech and (2) how...

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This purpose of this study is to examine future fears and reassurances about the nature of the recent artificial intelligence (AI) language model-based application, ChatGPT, use in the fields of scientific research and academic works and assignments. This study aims at exploring the positive and negative aspects of the use of ChatGPT by researchers...

Purpose Based on an experimental study on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) students, at the Business Department at the University of Bisha, the purpose of the study is to examine the effect of chatbot use on learning ESP in online classrooms during COVID-19 and find out how Dialogflow chabot can be a useful and interactive online platform to hel...

Prior studies in translanguaging have investigated its role in education from different perspectives to understand its efficiency, practicality, and how it promotes or challenges educational and societal aims in different multilingual contexts across the world. However, little attention has been paid to translanguaging in universities with a monoli...

There has been significant and extensive knowledge production in the last four decades regarding pragmatic language impairment (PLI) in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. The evidence contained in this literature, however, is contradictory. The present scoping review (ScR) seeks to disentangle competing explanations of conceptualizing, def...

There are numerous children and adolescents throughout the world who are either diagnosed with speech and language disorders or manifest any of them as a result of another disorder. Meanwhile, since the emergence of language as an innate capability, the question of whether it constitutes a behaviour or an innate ability has been debated for decades...

Developing a writer’s voicea challenging task for second-language writers who are new not only to the culture but also to the values associated with the target language. This study aims at exploring the writer’s voice of Arabic-speaking learners who study English as a Second Language. The study mainly discusses the following question: Do L2 learner...

Developing a writer’s voice is a challenging task for second-language writers who are new not only to the culture but also to the values associated with the target language. This study aims at exploring the writer’s voice of Arabic-speaking learners who study English as a Second Language. The study mainly discusses the following question: Do L2 lea...

Objective: An individual’s articulation of pragmatic language development (PLD) signifies successful social interaction with others. Therefore, it is important to detect early pragmatic language impairment (PLI), whether as a primary disorder or as a symptom of other neurodevelopmental disorders. This study reports on validating the Arabic version...

The scope of this study is threefold. First, it examines socioeconomic status (SES) and pragmatic language development (PLD), hypothesizing that parental education and employment levels are mediators, where SES affects PLD mainly through its influence on parental education and employment levels. Second, we used quantitative (age) and qualitative (g...

Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) has been used in several studies as a theoretical framework to explore teachers’ use of technology in instruction. Numerous studies have contributed to understanding the effect of interaction between varied knowledge domains and differences between pre and in-service teachers’ knowledge. How...

Writing as a productive skill is challenging for the learners as it requires rich linguistic and cognitive abilities to match words with ideas well. A learner of any language as Second Language (SL), for example English, Arabic, Chinese, or German, enters an early, natural, and inevitable stage of making various errors in writing compositions. The...

Learners’ Self-assessment is a supportive and learner facilitating task, as a genuine part of the learner-centered approach, and Task-Based Teaching. It highlights the importance of giving freedom to the learners and is impactful on learner performance. This study aimed at exploring the advantages of Learners' Self-Assessment Tasks (LSATs) by B.A....

Making spelling errors is one of the common issues faced by learners in any language as Second Language (SL) at the early stage of learning. This study investigated the spelling errors in the writings of undergraduate B.A. English students, University of Bisha, Al-Namas, Saudi Arabia. The study explored the spelling errors’ phenomenon with relation...

Learners' Self-assessment is a supportive and learner facilitating task, as a genuine part of the learner-centered approach, and Task-Based Teaching. It highlights the importance of giving freedom to the learners and is impactful on learner performance. This study aimed at exploring the advantages of Learners' Self-Assessment Tasks (LSATs) by B.A....

This paper examines the early acquisition of null subjects and overt subjects and how they are distributed and realized in the early speech of Arabic dialect-speaking children.[ Acknowledgments: I am very grateful to Prof. Shruti Sircar, Prof. Abdualhfeed Al-Fakih and Dr. Fauzia Abdullah for their constant comments and support. Our sincere thanks a...

This paper examines the early acquisition of null subjects and overt subjects and how they are distributed and realized in the early speech of Arabic dialect-speaking children. ① The study accounts for the phenomenon of subjects by examining a longitudinal corpus of two children, Wala and Ibraheem, who were around two years old, speaking Yemeni Ibb...

This paper examines the acquisition of subject-verb agreement inflections in the natural speech corpus of two mono-lingual children speaking Yemeni Ibbi Arabic (YIA) between 2 and 3 years old. The two children are Ibrahim and Wala (between the age of 2;1 and 2;10) with Mean Lenghth of Utterance (MLU) range of 2.72 to 3.23 for Ibrahim and 2.9 to 3.2...

Research, by its nature, is a critical challenging task requires in depth knowledge of the subject matter, planning, care, and hard work. From the students' point of view, this paper attempts to explore the challenges that are faced by undergraduates when they are writing proposals and research projects at the early stages. The study target group c...

Research, by its nature, is a critical challenging task requires in depth knowledge of the subject matter, planning, care, and hard work. From the students' point of view, this paper attempts to explore the challenges that are faced by undergraduates when they are writing proposals and research projects at the early stages. The study target group c...

There is a growing importance for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses in English for Foreign language (EFL) context in the Arab Region due to the rapid technological advancement and development of academics in various fields. Thus, there is an emerging need for ESP courses cater to the students’ needs and help them do well in their respecti...

The paper shows that children acquiring Yemeni Ibbi Arabic 4 (henceforth referred to as YIA) go through a stage equivalent to the Root Infinitive (RI) stage found in non-null subject languages in spite of the fact that YIA is a null subject and does not have an infinitive construction. Spontaneous speech of two YIA children (2;1-2;11) showed presen...