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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…

Is negation more difficult to process than affirmation? If it is, does processing negation in a second language (L2) compound the difficulty compared to the first language (L1)? This article addresses the issues of difficulties in processing different types of negation in the L1 and L2 by looking at the differences in…

The concept of limited English proficiency (LEP) presents significant challenges when applied to the healthcare needs of the diverse and growing multilingual population in the U.S. We expound on the following ways in which the concept of LEP is problematic: the ethnocentric notion of a "primary language," the ambiguous…

This two-wave (1.5 years apart) longitudinal study examined the bidirectional relations between measures of executive function (EF; working memory, attention focusing, inhibitory control, and a comprehensive EF measure) and two types of English word-level reading (pseudoword reading and word reading) among 258 school-a…

Draft European legislation should be amended to make it easier for professional regulators to test the English language skills of overseas nurses, according to the NHS Confederation.

BACKGROUND: Parents increasingly consult the internet, both websites and, more recently, artificial intelligence chatbots, for information on autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, the comparative quality of these two source types, especially across languages, remains underexplored. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to as…

PURPOSE: To examine associations between culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) status and definitive treatment delay among individuals diagnosed with intermediate- or high-risk prostate cancer (PCa) in Victoria, Australia. METHODS: Data were sourced from the Victorian Prostate Cancer Outcomes Registry (PCOR-Vic…

BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic and ethnic factors are established determinants of cardiovascular health inequalities. The role of low proficiency in the majority language as a mediator of these inequalities is uncertain. AIM: This study aimed to investigate the association between non-English language preference and cardio…

Health communication is critical to promoting healthy lifestyles and preventing unhealthy behaviors. However, populations may differ in terms of their trust in and use of health information sources, including mass media, the Internet, and interpersonal channels. We used the 2005 Health Information National Trends Surve…

OBJECTIVE: The present study examined aging and testing-language effects on verbal list learning in young adult and older deaf bilinguals of American Sign Language (ASL) and written English. It is not known which language maximizes free recall, and no list learning task has been widely adopted for testing this populati…

OBJECTIVES: Psychological models of voice-hearing propose that auditory-verbal hallucinations occur when inner speech is attributed to a source external to the self. Approximately half of the world's population is multilingual, and the extent to which they use a second language for inner speech depends on their experie…

Video-based materials are widely used in early second-language education, but young children may have difficulty learning from videos without social support. The present study examined how different forms and amounts of parental intervention during video viewing influenced young children's English utterances and behavi…

INTRODUCTION: This study aims to evaluate the accessibility of online health resources for nipple reconstruction in English and Spanish to identify areas of improving information access. METHODS: A deidentified Google search was conducted using the search phrase "nipple reconstruction" in English and "reconstrucci&#xf…

INTRODUCTION: In the last couple of decades, Amharic-English translation has greatly improved from a rule-based approach to contemporary systems that apply neural networks. Even after these advancements, problems remain because of the Amharic language's resource-scarce nature, such as inadequate datasets, tools for wor…

PURPOSE: People with aphasia have been found to experience more difficulty in producing verbs with a greater number of arguments (transitives vs. intransitives) or non-canonical argument mapping (unaccusatives vs. unergatives). Basque is an ergative-absolutive language that assigns ergative case marking to subjects of…

INTRODUCTION: Student engagement is a vital evaluation index in the learning process of English learners and serves as a key indicator of the effectiveness and quality of college English teaching. METHODS: Based on the perspective of the second language motivational self system theory, this study used a structural equ…

In a previous study, Dodane and Bijeljac-Babic (2017) found that French/AmericanEnglish children aged 3;6 to 6;0, bilingual from birth, produced disyllabic words which had acoustic properties for lexical stress (f0, syllable duration and intensity) that differed from those of monolingual peers, showing cross-linguistic…

Studies of the relationship between spelling and handwriting concur that spelling skills influence the dynamic processes of handwriting. However, it remains unclear whether variations in spelling ability are related to variations in the legibility of handwriting, how important spelling skills are relative to the amount…

OBJECTIVE: Bilingualism is increasingly prevalent; however, research in bilingual children with autism is sparse. The purpose of this study was to compare social skills and autistic features in monolingual English and bilingual English-Spanish children with autism spectrum disorder. METHODS: We conducted a review of t…