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This study presents a new model of psychological processes to predict English communication behaviors of Japanese high school students. Various models have been proposed in Japan, based mainly on Canadian models, to predict second-language communication behaviors. This study shows problems with the previous models in J…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the presence and consultations with nurse terminology in the Spanish edition of Wikipedia, and to analyze the differences with the English edition. METHOD: We confirmed the existence of terminology via the Internet by the access to the Spanish and English editions of Wikipedia. RESULTS: We cal…

This study examined the acoustic characteristics of American English liquids /ɹ/, /l/, and /ɹl/ produced by 14 adult learners of English (L2) and 13 native speakers of English. Several temporal and spectral measures were examined, including a novel measure to describe the relative timing of the maximum cons…

Bilinguals are capable of retuning phonetic categories in both languages through lexically-guided perceptual learning, but recent work suggests that some bilingual speakers may lose the ability to adapt in the native language. In the study reported here, early Cantonese-English bilinguals, who are on average English-do…

Nowadays, more and more Chinese medicine practices are applied in the world and popularizing that becomes an urgent task. To meet the requiremets, an increasing number of Chinese - English traditional medicine dictionaries have been produced at home or abroad in recent decades. Nevertheless, the users are still struggl…

This study was designed to investigate the effect of integrated instruction in both spoken and written English on oral expression of hearing-impaired persons. Twenty-five hearing-impaired young adults were enrolled in English courses that focused on reading and writing skills only (control group) or on reading, writing…

Nurses need strong English language skills to access knowledge and promote evidence-based practice. Podcast production is a promising pedagogical strategy to improve language skills. However, the effects of podcast production on nursing students' perceived English reading proficiency and the most effective production i…

OBJECTIVE: The effects of limited English and interpreter use on clinical outcomes in mental health are poorly understood. This paper describes an exploratory study examining those effects across three adult inpatient psychiatric units, predicting it would lead to increased length of stay. METHODS: Forty-seven patient…

BACKGROUND: Australia has an increasing number of nursing students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds however problems communicating in the clinical setting, difficulty with academic writing and a tendency to achieve lower grades have been reported. OBJECTIVES: To identify the language needs of cul…

BACKGROUND: Patients newly diagnosed with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease (LCPD) often use the internet to learn about their disease. The American Medical Association (AMA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommend writing patient education resources at sixth- to eigth-grade reading levels. The purpose of this s…

This study explores the integration of the educational philosophy of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) with deep learning technologies for the development of high school English course resources. By introducing deep learning models, particularly the Transformer architecture, the study enab…

English has emerged as the predominant global language, driving efforts to optimize its acquisition through interdisciplinary cognitive research. While behavioral studies suggest a link between English learning and mathematical cognition, the neural mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. To b…

Educational digital games can be an effective way to teach English grammatical material because they provide an interactive and engaging learning experience. The purpose of this study is to clarify how playing digital games affects students' motivation and performance in university-level English grammar classes. [The N…

This randomized controlled trial study aimed to examine what experience other than immersion may help adult learners read with native-like neural responses. We compared a group of 13 native Chinese English learners completing English letter-sound association training with another group of 12 completing visual symbol-so…

BACKGROUND: Outcomes for surgical patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) may be worse compared to patients with English proficiency. We sought to evaluate the association of LEP with outcomes for trauma patients. METHODS: Admitted adult patients on trauma service at two Level One trauma centers from 2015 to 2…

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have highlighted that bilingual listeners have a deficit in speech perception in their second language compared with monolingual listeners in noisy listening environments. This deficit may give rise to educational and occupational implications for bilingual speakers who are studying or work…

The aim of this study was to examine self-teaching in the context of English as a foreign language literacy acquisition. Three groups comprising 88 sixth-grade children participated. The first group consisted of Russian-Hebrew-speaking bilinguals who had acquired basic reading skills in Russian as their first language…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Several publications are warning that the German language is no longer needed for transmission of scientific data. One of the causes may be the Impact Factor (IF), which appears to be derived predominantly from Anglo-American journals. The aim of this study was to check actual international at…