Alaa Almohammadi

Biographic Data

ID5846687
NAMEAlaa Almohammadi
GIVEN NAMESAlaa
FAMILY NAMEAlmohammadi
SIGNATUREALMOHAMMADI A
AFFILIATIONSKing Abdulaziz University
ORCID0000-0002-0304-1022
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Covid-19 lockdown and early vocabulary development: Insights from Saudi households

    Open AccessHaifa Alroqi, Khadeejah Alaslani et al.ARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2026

    This study examines the types of activities that young Saudi children engaged in during the COVID-19 lockdown, whether these activities varied by SES, and whether they were associated with children’s vocabulary development

  • Metaphor comprehension in the acquisition of Arabic

    Open AccessAlaa Almohammadi, Dorota Gaskins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2025

    Metaphors are key to how children conceptualise the world around them and how they engage socially and educationally. This study investigated metaphor comprehension in typically developing Arabic-speaking children aged 3;01-6;07. Eighty-seven children were administered a newly developed task containing 20 narrated stories and were asked to point at pictures that best illustrated the metaphoric expression. The results were examined through a mixed…

  • Late talking in young children in Saudi Arabia: Identifying key risk factors

    Open AccessAlaa Almohammadi, Khadeejah Alaslani et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2025

    The development of language skills is critical to the academic success and overall well-being of children. Research shows that late talking, defined as delayed expressive language development in toddlers, negatively impacts future language and literacy skills. The early identification of children at risk of late talking can significantly improve long-term outcomes in language development. However, data on late talkers among Saudi children are sca…

  • Politicizing Covid-19 Lingua in Western and Arab Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

    Open AccessTariq Elyas, Abdulrahman Aljabri et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for the…2023

  • Covid-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: Associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains

    Natalia Kartushina, Nikolaus Mani et al.PREPRINT2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting closure of daycare centers worldwide, led to unprecedented changes in children’s learning environments. This period of increased time at home with caregivers, with limited access to external sources (e.g., daycares) provides a unique opportunity to examine the associations between the caregiver-child activities and children’s language development. The vocabularies of 1742 children aged 8-36 months across 1…

  • The representation(s) of Saudi women pre-driving era in local newspapers and magazines: A critical discourse analysis

    Tariq Elyas, Kholoud Ali Al-Zhrani et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Middle Eastern…2020Cited by: 8

    The purpose of this paper is to investigate the online representation(s) of Saudi women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with respect to the use of language functions. It aims to identify the particular ways in which Saudi women are represented, as well as the ideologies behind the style of representation, specifically focusing on the timeframe of pre-driving era. As a case study, 17 articles from Saudi newspapers and magazines published online be…