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British English and Singapore English are said to differ in rhythmic patterning. British English is commonly described as stress-timed, but Singapore English is claimed to be syllable-timed. In the present paper, we explore the acoustic nature of the suggested cross-varietal difference. In directly comparable samples f…

BACKGROUND: English proficiency in higher education is strongly associated with a student's overall academic performance. For instance, written assignments, which are a key component of continuous assessment, heavily depend on the student's proficiency in English. Therefore, students with good English proficiency are m…

Emotions can influence and regulate learners' attention, memory, thinking, and other cognitive activities. The similarities and differences between English and non-English majors in terms of English classroom learning engagement were compared, and the significant factors affecting the emotional, cognitive, and behavior…

OBJECTIVE: Limited English proficiency can be a barrier to asthma care and is associated with poor outcomes. This study examines whether pediatric patients in Ohio with limited English proficiency experience lower asthma care quality or higher morbidity. METHODS: We used electronic health records for asthma patients a…

PURPOSE: English and Mandarin are the 2 most spoken languages in the world, yet it is not known how stuttering manifests in English-Mandarin bilinguals. In this research, the authors investigated whether the severity and type of stuttering is different in English and Mandarin in English-Mandarin bilinguals, and whether…

As positive psychology is imported into second language acquisition, we witness the increasing interest in the research of English enjoyment. Therefore, investigating the antecedents of English enjoyment is of paramount importance. Although internal and external factors have been scrutinized by researchers, scarce stud…

INTRODUCTION: Like children with typical language development, their peers with developmental language disorder (DLD) are expected to learn English as a foreign language (EFL). For pupils without DLD, it is well-established that amount of informal exposure to English outside of the classroom, starting age of EFL instru…

Students situated in post-structural feminist pedagogical learning (PFPL) in a freshman English course (37 students) were expected to have lower English classroom anxiety, score higher in English, and have greater satisfaction with the class they attended than those in conventional lecture classes (40 students). Sevent…

The purpose of this study is to improve the English learning anxiety and learning effect for middle school students. From the perspective of educational psychology, the influence of vocalized reading practice on the English learning of students is studied based on the self-efficacy theory and the schema theory. To enco…

Cognitive impairment is pronounced in forcibly displaced populations. This study examined how education and English proficiency are associated with cognitive difficulties between refugee and non-refugee older immigrants. Analyses assessed the moderating effect of refugee status on the association of education and Engli…

Previous research has mainly considered the impact of tone-language experience on ability to discriminate linguistic pitch, but proficient bilingual listening requires differential processing of sound variation in each language context. Here, we ask whether Mandarin-English bilinguals, for whom pitch indicates word dis…

This study compares the mental health outcomes of survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) whose primary language is not English with those of survivors whose primary language is English. A total of 126 IPV survivors were recruited for this study, many of whom identified as Latiné (42.86%). We examined the rel…

Bilingual children often engage in code-switching (CS) or switching between languages. Research indicates CS shifts as a child's L1 and L2 proficiency change, yet little is known about how these patterns unfold in structured academic tasks. This study examined CS in 195 Spanish-speaking English learners on narrative re…

BACKGROUND: Since the beginning of the 90s, medical students in Italian Faculties have been required to pass a compulsory English exam. In the light of the growing importance of reasonably fluent spoken and written English at the start of the new millennium, the authors present an English teaching program spanning the…

We examined the spelling acquisition in children up to late primary school of a consistent orthography (Italian) and an inconsistent orthography (English). The effects of frequency, lexicality, length, and regularity in modulating spelling performance of the two groups were examined. English and Italian children were m…

INTRODUCTION: Using English as the medium of instruction in science courses may hinder comprehension for students who lack sufficient English language proficiency. This challenge is particularly relevant in non-English speaking countries, where students may struggle to follow complex scientific content delivered exclus…

A sample of elementary school- and high school-age deaf students in special education programs in the Australian state of Queensland using Australasian Signed English (ASE) took the Test of Syntactic Abilities (Quigley, Steinkamp, Power, & Jones, 1978) and wrote a story in response to a wordless picture sequence. Sever…

This study tests the interface hypothesis by investigating how advanced Arab learners of English develop the grammatical knowledge of English indirect questions. Ten advanced Arab learners of English and four native speakers of English are tested on a written grammaticality judgment task and an oral production task. Th…

Purpose Older native speakers of English have difficulty in understanding Spanish-accented English compared to younger native English speakers. However, it is unclear if this age effect would be observed among native speakers of Spanish. The current study investigates the effects of age and native language experience w…

AIM: This article is a report of the psychometric testing of the five-item English Language Acculturation Scale, an indicator of English language usage as reported by first-year undergraduate nursing students. BACKGROUND: Nursing students who have English as an additional language can struggle clinically and academica…