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Medicaid beneficiaries in most states must go through a redetermination process every 6-12 months to demonstrate continued eligibility. This study sought to examine Medicaid redetermination experiences among beneficiaries with Limited English Proficiency (LEP). A sequential mixed methods study was conducted involv…

The present work re-evaluates the long-standing claim that demonstratives are among infants' earliest and most common words. Although demonstratives are deictic words important for joint attention, deictic gestures and non-word vocalizations could serve this function in early language development; the role of demonstra…

Prominence, the expression of informational weight within utterances, can be signaled by prosodic highlighting (, as in English) or by position (as in Korean). Prominence confers processing advantages, even if conveyed only by discourse manipulations. Here we compared processing of prominence in English and Korean, usi…

The future of internationally-oriented French-language medical journals depends on two objectives: securing the vast audience of potential English-speaking readers (ten times as great as the number of French readers) without whom there can be no international impact; and enlarging the number of French-speaking readers.…

BACKGROUND: The management of persistent symptoms during acid suppression therapy in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease or dyspepsia might be improved if patient-physician communication regarding the presence and character of these persistent symptoms were facilitated. AIM: To validate a short, simple quest…

The integration of digital technologies has transformed language learning and provided informal avenues that complement traditional English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction. This study investigates the direct effects of Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE), intrinsic motivation, and grit on Online Learnin…

Against the backdrop of rapid technological development, informal English learning has become increasingly prominent in language education, particularly among digital natives. However, limited research has examined how digital nativity influences learners' emotions and their intentions to engage in such learning. This…

INTRODUCTION: This research investigates the effectiveness of an online collaborative flipped classroom approach in enhancing English reading skills and self-regulated learning among Chinese English learners. METHODS: A total of 71 participants were divided into three instructional groups: traditional instruction (TI)…

The recognition of students' learning behavior is an important method to grasp the changes of students' psychological characteristics, correct students' good learning behavior, and improve students' learning efficiency. Therefore, an automatic recognition method of students' behavior in English classroom based on deep…

Stance is a feature of academic writing that refers to how writers interact and engage with their readers by means of linguistic devices. This study focuses on the grammatical devices-and semantic distinctions thereof-that are employed by academic writers of English to express stance in research article abstracts in th…

To measure failure rates among non-clinical, Mexican American, bilinguals on embedded performance validity measures from the California Verbal Learning Test3 and verbal fluency and the stand-alone Rey 15-item test plus recognition (Rey 15-IR) using valid/invalid performance cut scores developed for monolingual, English…

There is mounting evidence that prosody facilitates grouping the speech stream into syntactically-relevant units (e.g., Hawthorne & Gerken, 2014; Soderstrom, Kemler Nelson, & Jusczyk, 2005). We ask whether prosody's role in syntax acquisition relates to its general acoustic salience or to the learner's acquired knowled…

This study sets out to answer one major question: do linguistic phenomena relating to syntax-discourse interface constitute difficulty for Yemeni learners of English? It presents data from an experiment on the acquisition of L2 Englishinterrogatives by L1 Yemeni Arabic speakers, aiming to provide empirical evidence eit…

INTRODUCTION: We present a cross-linguistic experimental study that explores the exhaustivity properties of questions embedded under wissen/to know and korrekt vorhersagen/to correctly predict in German and English. While past theoretical literature has held that such embedded questions should only be interpreted as st…

In English Medium Instruction (EMI), one of the biggest challenges is reportedly the teachers' own lack of English language proficiency. Helping teachers to improve their proficiency while learning about pedagogy is critical to achieving reasonable success in EMI. This article is contextualized in an English language t…

Even though learning can be complex when using a language other than one's mother tongue, the English-medium communicative approach has been widely adopted in Saudi universities over recent years. Many universities in Saudi Arabia are teaching their courses through the medium of English rather than Arabic, as was previ…

UNLABELLED: Recently, second-language learning success depends upon the students' interest and motivation by adopting innovations that require regulators' and new researchers' emphasis. Hence, this article explores the role of resistance to innovation, lack of intercultural communication, and students' interest on the…

Professional development of language teachers is one major measure to ensure that teachers remain updated and avoid the risk or leaving the profession. Not all teachers, however, attend professional development (PD) workshops or engage in such activities for the sake of developing professionally. Some teachers attend P…