37,952,406 papers · showing 2,221–2,240 · for “English” · from PubMed, enriched with Crossref, Unpaywall and Europe PMC · 5194 ms

Prior second language writing motivation research tends to view writing motivation as a unidimensional construct or fails to represent the latest theoretical insights in motivational research. This study therefore aimed to validate the English as a Foreign Lan…

To comprehend the genuine reading habits and preferences of diverse user cohorts and furnish tailored reading recommendations, this study introduces an English text reading recommendation model designed specifically for long-tail users. This model integrates c…

The internet is a valuable resource in a technologically evolved society. The extant literature suggests that their scientific and educational usages are still limited. The current study asserts that the internet can provide new learning environments and oppor…

Student stereotyping of non-native English-speaking teachers is a common focus of research and there is a paucity of studies targeting trilingual students of multicultural backgrounds. The present study aims to investigate the dimensions of trilingual Chinese…

This article reports on a study that took a Dynamic Systems Theory (DST) perspective to second language (L2) motivational self system (L2MSS). More specifically, it investigated the influence of ancourse based on the Production-Oriented Approach (POA) upon the…

In recent years, gender mainstreaming in education has been discussed and studied. In the Philippines, however, research has tended to focus on extreme ends of the implementation process such as the awareness of educators about the gender perspective or the su…

Little is known about the impacts of health literacy and English proficiency on the health status of Somali refugees. Data came from interviews in 2009-2011 of 411 adult Somali refugees recently resettled in Massachusetts. English proficiency, health literacy,…

INTRODUCTION: Second language learning is a multifaceted task that benefits across numerous neurocognitive domains including central auditory processing. Existing cross-sectional and longitudinal data show that performance on tests of central auditory processi…

BACKGROUND: In a multicultural society, the impact of language proficiency and interpreter use on critical care patient outcomes is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between English language preference, requirement for an interpreter and in-…

This study reports an experiment conducted to examine the contribution of non-native speech timing to the perception of foreign accent. Native English listeners rated utterances produced in English by speakers whose first language was English or Saudi Arabic,…

Dependency distance (DD) is an important factor in language processing and can affect the ease with which a sentence is understood. Previous studies have investigated the role of DD in L2 writing, but little is known about how the native language influences DD…

This study was designed to examine the effect of limited English proficiency (LEP) on the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R). The HVLT-R was administered to 28 undergraduate student volunteers. Half were native speakers of English (NSE), half had LE…

This article synthesizes reading intervention research studies intended for use with struggling or at-risk students to determine which studies adequately address population validity, particularly in regard to the diverse reading needs of English language learn…

OBJECTIVES: To analyze the trends in the prevalence of the languages used in Medline, since its creation up to the present time, for the overall indexed articles in this database and those specifically related to the field of Urology. The results are extrapola…

PURPOSE: This study aims to characterize Spanish-English emergent bilingual (EB) children's language experiences and to examine how these experiences contribute to their bilingual development over a 2-year period. All EB children were enrolled in dual language…

INTRODUCTION: Patient education materials (PEMs) consistently exceed the recommended sixth-grade reading level. Poor health literacy and limited English proficiency, particularly in more than 40 million Spanish speakers, is associated with adverse patient outc…

In 2018, Gateway Community College reported that of its 5950 students who enrolled that year, 49% had classified themselves as minority. Roughly 28% of those students reported speaking a language other than English in the home setting.Developing course materia…

Hedge is defined as the expression of provisionalness and possibility that makes scientific messages tentative, vague, and imprecise, thereby reducing the force of claims scientists make. Linguistic study of hedges began in the early 1970s in generative semant…