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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…

BACKGROUND: Research on large language models (LLMs) in the medical field has predominantly focused on models trained with English-language corpora, evaluating their performance within English-speaking contexts. The performances of models trained with non-English language corpora and their performance in non-English co…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to compare outpatient behavioral health scheduling for children in Spanish-speaking families in Pennsylvania with that for children in families who speak English. STUDY DESIGN: We made paired English and Spanish telephone calls to outpatient behavioral health facilities using…

BACKGROUND: The primary objective was to determine if there is a relationship between English language performance and graduating grade point average (GPA) in pharmacy students with English as a second language (ESL). METHODS: Students graduating from a four-year pharmacy program in 2016-2018 were invited to participa…

BACKGROUND: English has served as the predominant language for academic communication on a worldwide scale. There is a growing demand for nursing professionals that possess international competency. However, the experience of utilizing English as a medium of instruction (EMI) for teaching nursing academic courses in ma…

Syntactic complexity, widely acknowledged as a key predictor of writing quality, has gained increasing attention in the realm of academic writing. A notable line of inquiry has centered on the factors that potentially influence syntactic complexity in academic writing. Instead of attending to one factor, the study focu…

OBJECTIVE: To understand current practices and challenges for collecting author feedback for English-language, industry-sponsored publications in Asia-Pacific (APAC), and the implications for adherence to international publication guidelines. METHODS: A cross-sectional, internet-based survey of industry ('internal') a…

BACKGROUND: Assessment of artificial intelligence (AI)-based models across languages is crucial to ensure equitable access and accuracy of information in multilingual contexts. This study aimed to compare AI model efficiency in English and Arabic for infectious disease queries. METHODS: The study employed the METRICS…

BACKGROUND: The unprecedented use of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to examine its uptake among individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP). OBJECTIVE: To assess telemedicine use among nonelderly adults with LEP and the association between use of telehealth and emergency depar…

Little is known about the experience of women of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in relation to breast reconstruction following mastectomy as treatment for their breast cancer. The aim of this study was to explore the factors that influenced Vietnamese- and English-speaking women's decisions ab…

BACKGROUND: Although upper-extremity disability has been shown to correlate highly with various psychosocial aspects of illness (e.g., self-efficacy, depression, kinesiophobia, and pain catastrophizing), the role of language in musculoskeletal health status is less certain. In an English-speaking outpatient hand surger…

AIMS: The aims of this study were to explore factors associated with the job satisfaction of overseas-qualified nurses working in public hospitals in South Australia and to compare whether factors associated with job satisfaction of overseas nurses from English-speaking backgrounds differed from those from non-English-…

BACKGROUND: Medical research increasingly utilizes patient-reported outcome measures administered and scored in different languages. In order to pool or compare outcomes from different language versions, instruments should be measurement equivalent across linguistic groups. The objective of this study was to examine th…

Many Latinos have limited English proficiency and this may negatively affect their use of health care services. To examine this, the authors interviewed 465 Spanish-speaking Latinos and 259 English speakers of various ethnicities who presented to a public hospital emergency department with non-urgent medical problems t…

PURPOSE: Artificial intelligence is increasingly transforming language learning environments, yet the psychological mechanisms through which AI-assisted instructional practices influence language outcomes remain insufficiently understood. Although prior studies have examined AI-supported learning, limited research has…

INTRODUCTION: Teaching English pronunciation in an English as a Second Language (ESL) context involves tailored strategies to help learners accurately produce sounds, intonation, and rhythm. METHODS: This study presents an innovative method utilizing advanced technology and algorithms to enhance pronunciation accuracy…

INTRODUCTION: Psycholinguistic studies have argued for the age of acquisition (AoA) of words as a marker of concept learning, showing that the semantic features of concepts themselves influence the age at which their labels are learned. However, empirical evidence suggests that semantic features such as imageability an…

Self-related beliefs can influence language learning motivation. In turn, reading motivation can facilitate self-related beliefs in influencing English reading comprehension (ERC). Additionally, past language learning experience affects future language learning. Thus, this study examined the motivational structure in E…

For English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students, automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology is the most potential assistant tool to help them improve their spoken English ability. The primary purpose of this study is to investigate learners' perceptions towards ASR technology after it is applied to traditional clas…

The academic performance of teacher education students predicts their future career development and it is also a significant factor related to their future students' academic performance. However, little is known about the associations between perceived classroom climate, student engagement and academic performance, es…