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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…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the presence and to assess the adequacy of the nutritional and eating disorders descriptors in the English and Spanish Wikipedia. METHOD: The terms were obtained from the thesaurus: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and APA-Terms. The existence of the terms was confirmed accessing to the Spanish…

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…

Machine translation of chemical nomenclature has considerable application prospect in chemical text data processing between languages. However, rule based machine translation tools have to face significant complication in rule sets building, especially in translation of chemical names between English and Chinese,…

OBJECTIVES: To explore an mHealth resource to support the limited-English-proficient cancer family caregiver. DATA SOURCES: Structured interviews with oncology clinic providers to assess a nurse-delivered resource to support health literacy and decision-making along the cancer trajectory. CONCLUSION: Limitations in c…

We investigated the perception of developmental changes in timing patterns that happen in the course of second language (L2) acquisition, provided that the native and the target languages of the learner are rhythmically similar (German and English). It was found that speech rhythm in L2 English produced by German learn…

The ulnar and posterior tibial conduction velocities were measured in a group of normal full-term English, West Indian and Turkish infants. The English infants had a faster mean ulnar nerve conduction velocity than the West Indian and Turkish infants, but when the sex of the infants was taken into account only the male…

BACKGROUND: English for medical purposes (EMP) is essential for medical students as it serves as a foundational language for medical communication and education. However, students often undervalue its importance within the medical curriculum. Given their demanding schedules and workload, educational methods for EMP mus…

This study is one of the few research efforts investigating unexpected non-interactive foreign language acquisition in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Participants included 46 English-Hebrew-speaking children (ages 4;10 to 12;0): 14 autistic children who acquired English via non-interactive input (ASD-NI)…

OBJECTIVES: Canada has two official languages (English and French) that vary in usage by province/territory and other smaller geographic units. The objective of this study was to compare the characteristics of persons receiving care in long-term care homes serving different language groups and to examine the extent to…

This study is intended to create an innovative contextual English learning environment making use of the widely used communication software, LINE ChatBot, based on the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML), in order to improve speaking and listening ability among learners. A total of 73 students were invited t…

Previous studies have shown that the grammatical aspect of verb predicates has an effect on tense-aspect sentence processing. However, it remains unclear as to whether the interaction of lexical aspect and grammatical aspect can influence the form-meaning association in the second language (L2) tense-aspect sentence pr…

OBJECTIVES: To identify diverse pathways to linguistic isolation (LI) and explain the differences in LI for older immigrants from different countries. METHOD: A demographic decomposition of LI was applied to 18 largest origin subgroups of foreign-born, ages 65 and older, in the 2010-2014 American Community Survey data…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate work satisfaction among Spanish nurses employed by English hospitals, as well as the influence of several social and work-related variables associated with satisfaction. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional study. All Spanish nurses (n=360) with a contract with any English hospital in April…

BACKGROUND: The trends in medical publishing are towards electronic versions and the use of the English language. The objective of this study was to compare general practitioners' ability to retain information when reading on paper versus on screen, and in their mother tongue versus in the English. MATERIAL AND METHOD…

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…