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English has long been the dominant language of scientific publication, and it is rapidly approaching near-complete hegemony. The majority of the scientists publishing in English-language journals are not native English speakers, however. This imbalance has important implications for training concerning ethics and enfor…

Although English has been the international aviation language since 1951, formal language proficiency testing for key aviation personnel has only recently been implemented by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). It aims to ensure minimum acceptable levels of English pronunciation and comprehension univ…

This study reports two metalinguistic parameters that constitute the schematic control of lateral inhibitory links between translation equivalents within the bilingual lexico-semantic system of Green's (Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 1:67-81, 1998a, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 1:100-104, 1998b, The bilin…

Category fluency tasks are an important component of neuropsychological assessment, especially when evaluating for dementia syndromes. The growth in the number of Spanish-speaking elderly in the United States has increased the need for appropriate neuropsychological measures and normative data for this population. This…

INTRODUCTION: The Speech Efficiency Score (SES) serves as an acoustic metric for assessing fluency in conversational speech within the temporal domain. This study leverages SES to investigate conversational speech efficiency among native speakers of American English (AE) compared to speakers of Mandarin-accented Englis…

This study examines learners' perceptions of the linguistic and learning potential of an AI-based English language learning app called Papua. The study took a quasi-experimental approach in which 128 students of the degree in Primary Education at the University of Huelva, Spain, gained experience of using the app over…

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges and attention to the mental health of all social groups, making mental health increasingly necessary and important. However, people only focus on the mental health of undergraduates, and the mental health of teachers has not received much attention from socie…

In the context of a global pandemic that started in 2020, the Chilean higher education institution Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB) faced the challenge of giving continuity to its already established blended program for English courses while also starting the implementation of a high-stakes certification assessment…

The traditional online teaching platform has poor compatibility due to the high data delay in practical applications. Therefore, a Multimedia English online teaching platform under wireless network communication technology is designed. Aiming at the actual functional requirements of online teaching, the overall archite…

Children learning English as an additional language (EAL) are a diverse and growing group of pupils in England's schools. Relative to their monolingual (ML) peers, these children tend to show lower receptive and expressive vocabulary knowledge in English, although interpretation of findings is limited by small and hete…

Typically in English, a "satellite-framed" language, manner is expressed in the verb and path is expressed in supporting words. Past studies using looking time techniques suggest that English-speaking 3-year-olds show language-specific action processing, but 2.5-year-olds preferentially attend to path regardless of nat…

BACKGROUND: In light of the heightened expectations surrounding the development of foreign language professionals in the age of artificial intelligence and the pursuit of academic excellence in Asian culture, Chinese English majors are faced with tremendous academic pressure. Accordingly, as a positive individual trait…

After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Asian Americans in the United States have experienced a surge in anti-Asian crimes, leading to heightened psychological distress among this community. Consequently, the mental well-being of Asian Americans demands greater attention than ever. Regrettably, Asians tend to…

BACKGROUND: In the United States, English language proficiency is widely accepted as a key social determinant of health. For patients with limited English proficiency (LEP), language barriers can make the delivery of perioperative instructions challenging. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a multilingua…

Solving word problems in mathematics presents difficulties for many English learners (ELs), including those who use Spanish as a home language. In the early stage of learning to solve mathematics word problems, some children, including ELs, experience difficulties. By English status, EL refers to those children whose h…

The aim of this study is to examine the lifelong learning tendencies of English teachers, their professional competencies, and their self-efficacy in integrating technology. For this purpose, a descriptive survey model was used in this study. The participants of the research consist of 561 English teachers working in i…

OBJECTIVE: There is evidence to suggest adverse outcomes on patients' medical and surgical care when there is language discordance in patient-physician relationships. No studies have evaluated the impact of limited English proficiency (LEP) on complications after common surgical procedures in otolaryngology. Furthermor…

BACKGROUND: An increasing number of children in the UK and Ireland are growing up speaking more than one language. The many advantages of bilingualism are acknowledged; however, this increased linguistic diversity presents particular challenges for speech and language therapists (SLTs). The case is often more complex w…

To help non-native English speakers quickly master English vocabulary, and improve reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, and communication skills, this study designs, constructs, and improves an English vocabulary learning model that integrates Spiking Neural Network (SNN) and Convolutional Long Short-Term M…

This study investigates whether syntactic unification, the process whereby lexical items are combined into a structured sentence representation, operates independently of semantic influence in Cantonese. Specifically, we compared Cantonese with English to examine whether the autonomy of syntactic unification from seman…