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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…

This paper examined a number of variables pertaining to the sociocultural outlooks of 412 young Arab students learning English as a foreign language and the relation of their attitudes and motivations prior to their learning of the language. Analysis indicated clearly that certain variables appeared to be correlated wi…

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…

This research provides insight into current te reo Māori (the Indigenous language of Aotearoa, New Zealand) use in English-medium ECE settings. We videoed naturalistic conversations between(educators) and(aged 15-28 months) at 24 English-medium BestStart ECE centres. Te reo Māori was quantitatively assessed…

The use in psychology of crowdsourcing platforms as a method of data collection has been increasing in popularity because of its relative ease and versatility. Our goal is to adapt the Gratitude Questionnaire-20 Items (G20) to the English language by using data collected through a crowdsourcing platform. The G20 is a c…

The present study examines non-native (L2) and native (L1) listeners' access to figurative idiomatic meaning and literal constituent meaning in two cross-modal priming experiments. Proficient German learners of English (L2) and native speakers of American English (L1) responded to English target words preceded by Engli…

The article by Cheri Wilson, "Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality: The Case for Language Access", highlights the challenges of providing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) to patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP). As the US pursues high-value, high-performance healthcare, our ability…

This study investigated the role of morphological awareness weaknesses in the reading difficulties encountered by Spanish-speaking language minority learners and their native English-speaking peers in sixth grade. One hundred and thirty-eight students (82 language minority learners; 56 native English speakers) were ass…

BACKGROUND: The global adoption of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education has introduced complex implementation challenges, whose severity often depends on the resources available within specific educational contexts. Evidence remains limited in public medical schools in under-resourced, non-anglophone co…

BACKGROUND: Communication is key to success in bariatric surgery. This study aims to understand how outcomes after bariatric surgery differ between patients with a non-English primary language and those with English as their primary language. METHODS: This retrospective, observational cohort study of bariatric surgery…

BACKGROUND: In computer-mediated English-language text on health topics, spelling errors and unorthodox emphasis (e.g. 'shouting' capitalisation) implicitly result in linear and additive penalties to trustworthiness. AIMS: (1) To quantify the effects of misspelling, unorthodox emphasis (boldface text), and their combi…

How do subtitles shape where learners look, and what they learn, in bilingual instructional video? Subtitles are increasingly central to instructional video in multilingual education, where learners must integrate spoken input with written text. In the present paper, we recorded eye movements while university students…

Words' morphemic structure and their orthographic representations vary across languages. How do bilingual experiences with structurally distinct languages influence children's morphological processes for word reading? Focusing on English literacy in monolinguals and bilinguals (= 350, ages 5-9), we first revealed uniqu…

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…