A5085188747- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Language Development and Disorders
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Arabic Language Education Studies
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies
- Socioeconomic Development in MENA
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Stuttering Research and Treatment
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
- Educational Methods and Impacts
- Translation Studies and Practices
- Social Media and Politics
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
King Abdulaziz University
2020-2025
King's College London
2024
Abstract Older children with online schooling requirements, unsurprisingly, were reported to have increased screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in many countries. Here, we ask whether younger no similar requirements also had lockdown. We examined children’s a large cohort (n = 2209) of 8-to-36-month-olds sampled from 15 labs across 12 Caregivers that toddlers exposed more than before While this was exacerbated for countries longer lockdowns, there evidence increase associated...
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period increased time at home with caregivers, limited access external sources (e.g., daycares) provides a unique opportunity examine associations between caregiver-child activities language development. vocabularies 1742 children aged 8-36 months across 13 countries 12 languages were evaluated beginning end first lockdown their respective...
The development of language skills is critical to the academic success and overall well-being children. Research shows that late talking, defined as delayed expressive in toddlers, negatively impacts future literacy skills. early identification children at risk talking can significantly improve long-term outcomes development. However, data on talkers among Saudi are scarce. present study aimed address this gap by examining prevalence factors focusing biological environmental influence...
Metaphors are key to how children conceptualise the world around them and they engage socially educationally. This study investigated metaphor comprehension in typically developing Arabic-speaking aged 3;01-6;07. Eighty-seven were administered a newly developed task containing 20 narrated stories asked point at pictures that best illustrated metaphoric expression. The results examined through mixed ANCOVA, testing effects of chronological age, type (primary, perceptual) conventionality...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the online representation(s) Saudi women in Kingdom Arabia, with respect use language functions. It aims identify particular ways which are represented, as well ideologies behind style representation, specifically focusing on timeframe pre-driving era. As a case study, 17 articles from newspapers and magazines published between 6th 23rd March 2016 (a time frame surrounding International Woman's Day) were examined by using critical discourse...
<title>Abstract</title> This country-wide study explores the landscape of childcare providers (CPs) in Saudi Arabia, illuminating their pivotal role fostering children’s language skills. While fundamental, our understanding status Arabia remains limited. provides a comprehensive profile CPs, exploring knowledge child development, self-efficacy, and interplay with work experience, education, training. Key findings indicate that merely quarter CPs hold degree early childhood education. A...
This study examined children’s screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in a large cohort (n=2209) of 8-to-36-month-olds sampled from 15 labs across 12 countries. The sample was largely balanced by sex, though most participants were majority White. Caregivers reported that young infants and toddlers with no online schooling requirements exposed to more than before lockdown. While this exacerbated for countries longer lockdowns, there evidence increase associated demographics, e.g.,...
This paper exercises a multimodal discourse analysis approach to explore the visual representation(s) of Saudi women in small cartoon corpus published on global online platform, Cartoon Movement. More specifically, present study aims identify communicative functions, thematic foci and discursive practices adopted by caricature producers when representing SW issues post-driving era. Ten drawings between 2017 2020 have been purposively selected for semiotic analysis. Applying social-semiotic...
This study examined children’s screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in a large cohort (n=2209) of 8-to-36-month-olds sampled from 15 labs across 12 countries. The sample was largely balanced by sex, though most participants were majority White. Caregivers reported that young infants and toddlers with no online schooling requirements exposed to more than before lockdown. While this exacerbated for countries longer lockdowns, there evidence increase associated demographics, e.g.,...
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period increased time at home with caregivers, limited access external sources (e.g., daycares) provides a unique opportunity examine associations between caregiver-child activities language development. vocabularies 1742 children aged 8-36 months across 13 countries 12 languages were evaluated beginning end first lockdown their respective...