The use of technological tools, particularly during the pandemics has become a widespread practice, and as for the EFL contexts, it is not surprising to see a wide range of applications. In this context, the present study aims to increase the quality of productive skills through the provision of cohesive and coherence devices, which is a significant problem for non-native speakers. Therefore, in order to enable a learner to create qualified utterances or texts, a sound background information for the use of cohesive devices such as lexical synonyms, pronouns, parallelism and linking words is needed. With this problem on the agenda, this study used artificial intelligence tools (see the References) to let the learners create good quality paragraphs bearing the features mentioned. The participants of the study are 60 freshman students, whose written documents were investigated to identify the source of the missing items leading to the creation of poor portions of language deprived of linguistic devices. Moreover, the participants took part in the application which aimed to teach the use of mechanical devices for the purpose of unity, coherence and cohesion. The pre and post test results of the students indicated that there is a statistically significant difference between the results. After taking part in such a study, the participants reported that using AI-powered cohesive devices helped them to create effective oral and written productions.
cohesion, coherence, writing skill, speaking skill, AI tools