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BACKGROUND: Language proficiency is crucial for doctors as they communicate with patients, peers and other healthcare professionals. Although proficiency in English is part of admission requirements, there is a gap in the knowledge of medical students' perception of factors enhancing English language (EL) skills d…

BACKGROUND: Speaking a second language influences jitter and shimmer when comparing monolingual English speakers with bilingual English-Spanish speakers. However, there is little information about differences on voice acoustic parameters when comparing monolingual Spanish speakers with bilingual Spanish-English speaker…

Both native language background and second-language proficiency may shape brain responses to a second language. Using cross-modal mismatch negativity (MMN) (pre-attentive processing) and audiovisual P300 (attentive processing) paradigms, this study examined how native Chinese speakers with various second-language profi…

Our objective was to investigate the association between non-English language preference (NELP) and reported HIV testing in a nationally representative sample of US adults and to identify sociodemographic and access to care factors associated with reported HIV screening among those with NELP. We performed a cross-secti…

This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on spelling and writing in different orthographies. Most studies and theoretical models of writing are based on the English language, and it is generally assumed that what is true for English is also true for other languages. Further, there are more studies on…

Spanish is the leading non-English language in the United States, with more than 41 million speakers. The Hispanic population has one of the lowest health literacy rates. Amongst Spanish speakers, limited English proficiency can contribute to poorer health outcomes and greater health disparities, such as lower quality…

Do different languages have a translation for the English word disgust that labels the same underlying concept? If not, the English word might label a culture-specific concept. Four studies (Ns = 93, 90, 180, 960) compared disgust to its common translation in Hindi (an Indo-European language) and in Malay…

This study is aimed to replicate Vikis-Freibergs' classic study (1976) on the values of vividness for French words. Vividness resulted from the concreteness and the emotionality values of words, here defined, respectively, as referring to something that can be experienced through senses and that can arouse pleasant or…

Word recognition processes of monolingual readers of English and of Greek were examined with respect to the orthographic and syntactic characteristics of each language. Because of Greek's direct letter-to-sound correspondence, which is unlike the indirect representation of English, the possibility was raised of a great…

To study the performance of bilingual subjects on the Spanish and English versions of the Depression Adjective Check Lists (DACL), 27 males and 34 females completed the three forms of the DACL (E, F, and G), each of which was printed half in Spanish and half in English. Order of language was counterbalanced. No signifi…

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.1155/2022/1563731.].

Neural machine translation (NMT) for low-resource languages such as Assamese and Bodo has seen dramatic quality improvements with large multilingual models like Multilingual Bidirectional and Auto-Regressive Transformer (mBART50) and IndicTrans2 multilingual Transformer model, but their parameter counts (often [Formula…

OBJECTIVES: Our goal is to validate and to verify the reliability of the French and English versions of the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) in Lebanese adolescents. STUDY DESIGN: A cross-sectional study was implemented. METHODS: 104 Lebanese students aged between 14 and 19 years participated in the study. The Engl…

BACKGROUND: Several conservative (i.e., nonpharmacologic, nonsurgical) treatments exist for secondary lymphedema. The optimal treatment is unknown. We examined the effectiveness of conservative treatments for secondary lymphedema, as well as harms related to these treatments. METHODS: We searched MEDLINE®, EMBASE…

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study is to test a verbal test of English comprehension for use in the healthcare setting. The BEST (Basic English Skills Test) oral interview test is a verbal test to determine language competency. There is currently no verbal test for determination of English language competency used in…

The latency of the brain response to semantic anomalies (N400 effect) has been found to be longer in a bilingual's second language (L2) than in their first language (L1) and/or to that seen in monolinguals. This has been explained in terms of late exposure to L2, although age of exposure and language proficiency are of…

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…

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…