37,950,873 papers · showing 2,501–2,520 · for “English” · from PubMed, enriched with Crossref, Unpaywall and Europe PMC · 8698 ms

Switching language is costly for bilingual speakers and listeners, suggesting that language control is effortful in both modalities. But are the mechanisms underlying language control similar across modalities? In this study, we attempted to answer this questi…

The present study used electrophysiological and behavioral measures to investigate the perception of an English stop consonant contrast by native English listeners and by native Dutch listeners who were highly proficient in English. A /ba/-/pa/ continuum was c…

PURPOSE: It is well documented that patients without health insurance tend to present at more advanced cancer stages than those with insurance. What has not been well documented is the effect that primary language has on cancer stage presentation. Given the si…

This study compared the intelligibility of native and foreign-accented bilingualism English speech presented in quiet and mixed with three different levels of background noise. Two native American English speakers and four native Mandarin Chinese speakers for…

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 evid…

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 learnin…

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 to…

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 classr…

With the development of society and the promotion of science and technology, English, as the largest universal language in the world, is used by more and more people. In the life around us, there is information in English all the time. However, because the pro…

This two-wave (1.5 years apart) longitudinal study examined the bidirectional relations between measures of executive function (EF; working memory, attention focusing, inhibitory control, and a comprehensive EF measure) and two types of English word-level read…

BACKGROUND: In Taiwan's hospitals, English medical discourse underpins nursing and medical practice. Much patient care work is done through language work, by both text and talk. This means that when nurses start their nursing careers in the hospital context, w…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the presence and to assess the adequacy of the nutritional and eating disorders descriptors in the English and Spanish Wikipedia. METHOD: The terms were obtained from the thesaurus: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and APA-Terms. The ex…

Bilingualism is common worldwide and increasingly prevalent, but there is little information about bilingual children with autism spectrum disorder. The goal of the study was to compare expressive and receptive language skills in monolingual English and biling…

BACKGROUND: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has received increasing attention in evidence-based medicine. However, its largely experience-based and practice-oriented nature has slowed modernization and standardization. Advances in AI provide new opportuniti…

English proficiency is essential for medical students in non-English-medium settings, yet evidence on the effectiveness of fully web-based English for Medical Purposes (EMP) instruction remains limited. This study evaluated structured web-based EMP courses int…

Juan is a 5-year-old boy who has been followed by a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and pediatric neuropsychologist since being diagnosed with language delay and autism spectrum disorder at age 2 years. He is otherwise healthy and was born at term after…

PURPOSE: Connected speech analysis has been effectively utilized for the diagnosis and disease monitoring of individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Existing research has been conducted mostly in monolingual English speakers with a noticeable lack of eviden…

BACKGROUND: Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) patients are an underserved priority population. Existing, although contextually limited, findings indicate that DHH patients are more likely to use the emergency department (ED) than non-DHH patients. However, little…

BACKGROUND: The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) has been widely used to assess maternal depression following childbirth in a range of English speaking countries, and increasingly also in translation in non-English speaking ones. It has performed sa…