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The Independent Healthcare Forum has been launched four months after the Independent Healthcare Association (IHA) and English Care merged to form the English Community Care Association.

Mastering difficult English vocabulary poses considerable challenges for language learners. While prior studies have established the efficacy of retrieval practice in supporting vocabulary acquisition, it tends to be less effective for more complex words. This study explores the benefits of diminishing-cues retrieval p…

This study examines how Saudi medical students manage the accuracy demands of English academic writing in an English-medium instruction (EMI) context, with particular attention to medical terminology work and the instructional conditions that shape students' strategy use. Although EMI is institutionalized in Saudi medi…

Strategic competence is acknowledged to be able to explain variations in language test performance. Research with adult language test-takers has shown that strategic competence has dual components: strategic knowledge and strategic processing. Of the two components, strategic processing, which is state-like, unstable,…

AIM: To discuss the perceptions about the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and its impact on migration and practice of migrant health professionals in Australia. METHODS: Thematic analysis of interviews with 14 health industry participants and 35 migrated health professionals in Australia. RESULT…

INTRODUCTION: In the United States, limited English proficiency (LEP) and provider-patient language discordance are associated with poorer medical outcomes compared with English-proficient, language-concordant patients. Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) populations have higher-than-average rates of LEP and may…

BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer (ChatGPT), can provide efficient medical support for doctors. However, the adoption of ChatGPT may depend on users' proficiency in English. In this study, we surveyed the use of ChatGPT by early-career doctors, especially t…

BACKGROUND: Migrant workers have been identified in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia as a particularly vulnerable working population with a higher risk of work-related injury and mortality compared to non-migrant workers. Lack of English language proficiency is associated with an increased risk of work-related…

BACKGROUND: High attrition and academic underperformance have been highlighted among students who speak English as an additional language (EAL) in higher education, and a lack of language skills is often cited as a key explanatory factor. Although the relationship between English-language skills and academic performanc…

The Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP) can be used to assess respondents' general interpersonal distress and specific interpersonal style. In addition to a 64-item version, multiple 32-item versions exist. This includes the IIP-32 that is also in the IIP-64 manual and the IIP-Short Circumplex (IIP-SC); both were…

In an eye-tracking sentence-reading experiment, we explored whether there is a cross-linguistic influence of L1 Farsi and L1 Dutch on the processing of L2 English subject and object relative clauses (SRCs & ORCs). Both Farsi and Dutch are verb-final in the relative clause, which means that SRCs and ORCs cannot be disti…

With the continued development of information technology and increased global cultural exchanges, translation has gained significant attention. Traditional manual translation relies heavily on dictionaries or personal experience, translating word by word. While this method ensures high translation quality, it is often…

Recently, globe has tried to transform populace activities to digital platform, wherefrom all stakeholders can attain their basic information. However, education sector cannot be excluded from this debate. Since, the pandemic mostly most economies have utilized digital transformation in different aspects of life, but d…

The ability to encode (spell) is an integral writing skill needed to communicate effectively. The ability to spell, also, enhances decoding as spelling and decoding are reciprocal skills that rely on knowledge of the same subskills. Spelling can also be particularly difficult for students with literacy and phonological…

Listeners frequently recognize spoken words in the presence of background noise. Previous research has shown that noise reduces phoneme intelligibility and hampers spoken-word recognition - especially for non-native listeners. In the present study, we investigated how noise influences lexical competition in both the no…

OBJECTIVES: To assess the English reading comprehension skill of Japanese middle school students with cochlear implants (CIs). MATERIALS AND METHODS: The subjects were pre- or perilingually deafened CI recipients between seventh and ninth grades (age 12-15 years). English reading comprehension skill was evaluated usin…

Purpose The purpose of this study is to characterize narrative competence of typically developing bilingual children using Jamaican Creole (JC) and English. Method Story comprehension and fictional storytelling tasks in JC and English were completed by 104 bilingual preschoolers aged 4-6 years. Story comprehension was…