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Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine if a standardized assessment developed for Spanish-English dual language learners (SEDLLs) differentiates SEDLLs with language impairment (LI) from children with typical language better than the translated/adapted Spanish and/or English version of a standardized assess…

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study is to report normative data for the Short-Form 36 version 2 (SF-36v2) for assessing health-related quality of life, in the Singapore general population. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data for English and Chinese-speaking participants of the Singapore Prospective Study Programme were analys…

BACKGROUND: Language and cultural differences could be a limiting factor for the international exchange of Virtual Patients (VPs), especially for small countries and languages of limited circulation. Our research evaluated whether it would be feasible to develop a VP based educational program in our Romanian institutio…

English proficiency is increasingly recognized as an important factor that is related to the mental health of immigrants and ethnic minorities. However, few studies have examined how the association between English proficiency and mental health operates and whether the pattern of association is similar or different amo…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the equivalence of English and Chinese versions of the SF-36. METHODS: Using a crossover design with block randomisation and stratification by age, identical English or Chinese questionnaires containing the English (UK) and Chinese (HK) SF-36 versions were administered 3-16 days apart to 168 free-…

The objective of this study was to examine the relationships of amotivation, extrinsic motivation, and intrinsic motivation with learning the English language. The 230 Iranian students at Shiraz University were tested using the Language Learning Orientations Scales to measure Amotivation, Extrinsic Motivation, and Intr…

A series of three experiments was carried out in order to better characterize the representations that support long-term cognate priming. In Experiment 1, robust priming was obtained between orthographically similar French/English cognates in bilingual speakers, and this priming was mediated, in part, by orthographic c…

This study was designed to investigate the extent to which continuous speech competition, in sentence identification paradigm, produces linguistic interference over and above acoustic masking. We evaluated performance on the Synthetic Sentence Identification (SSI) test in 24 bilingual speakers of English and Spanish un…

Existence of linguistic, gender and ethno-racial differences in patients with sepsis remains relatively unknown, especially in the public health domain. Retrospective analysis of data reported by a hospital in South Brooklyn to a New York State sepsis registry was undertaken over a 24-month period. Inclusion criteria w…

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To identify the factors that influence decisions made by health professionals when assessing the pain of native English speaking and children whose English is an additional language. BACKGROUND: Pain assessment in children is often poorly executed following acute injury. Whilst a range of pain ass…

BACKGROUND: Gastric cancer is a major public health problem worldwide. Social media has affected public's daily lives in ways no one ever thought possible. Both TikoTok and its Chinese version Douyin are the most popular short video posting platform. This study aimed to evaluate the quality, accuracy, and completeness…

There have been few longitudinal studies investigating the immigrant health and changes in their health with longer residency in the host country. Additionally, the pathways and mechanisms by which transition of health over time occurs are poorly understood, limiting the ability to implement policies that will result i…

BACKGROUND: The UK South Asian population has poorer health outcomes. Little is known about their process of care in general practice, or in particular the process of communication with GPs. AIM: To compare the ways in which white and South Asian patients communicate with white GPs. DESIGN OF STUDY: Observational stu…

With the acceleration of globalization and the ongoing reform of education, creative teaching has gained increasing prominence in higher education. In response to the growing demand for cultivating innovation in college English instruction, this study explores the mechanism through which teachers’ metacognitive…

The traditional teaching methods are difficult to conform to students' ways of thinking and hard to meet teachers' teaching demands. This work studies the teaching philosophy of Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM), a practice-oriented interdisciplinary education concept. This work focuses o…