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PURPOSE: Speech language pathologists often do not speak the dominant language of their clients and so the language of treatment is an important consideration. This research investigated whether stuttering treatment delivered in English resulted in reductions in stuttering in English and Mandarin bilingual Singaporean…

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…

There has been limited research on nursing students' (NSs) language problems conducted in non-English speaking countries, especially research focusing on college transfer students. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceived needs and challenges of English use by college transfer NSs in a non-English speakin…

With the positive turn in second language acquisition, learners' flow in English learning has gradually attracted attention. However, there are limited tools that are specifically developed to measure learners' flow in English learning. The item analysis and exploratory factor analysis were conducted with a sample of 4…

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…

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…

This study aims to explore whether advanced EFL learners can acquire implicit knowledge of basic sentence structures, such as English questions. We ran a reaction-time experiment, a word monitoring test experiment to test learners' implicit knowledge by checking advanced EFL learners' grammatical sensitivity to English…

Due to the improvement of Internet technology and information technology, more and more students hope to learn and consolidate knowledge through video in the classroom. Teachers are more accustomed to using video in the classroom to improve and improve their teaching quality. In the current English class, teachers and…

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…

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…

This study investigates effects of long-term language contact and individual linguistic experience on the realization of lexical stress correlates in Welsh and Welsh English. To this end, a production study was carried out in which participants were asked to read out Welsh and English disyllabic words with stress on th…

Linguistic input in multi-lingual/-cultural contexts is highly variable. We examined the production of English and Malay laterals by fourteen early bilingual preschoolers in Singapore who were exposed to several allophones of coda laterals: Malay caregivers use predominantly clear-l in English and Malay, but their Engl…

Various forms of materials, such as pictures, videos and texts, have rapidly brought the college English translation teaching model into the era of multimedia integration. This makes it difficult for English teachers to improve college English translation by using unique materials, so as to form their own unique teachi…

The study examined the effects of an emotional intelligence training programme on improving the English reading performance of university students with dyslexia risk in China. It is an experimental study with mixed-research methods. A total of 61 students with dyslexia risk were selected as an experimental group and a…

The issues with traditional teaching methods in current English education are becoming more and more evident in college classrooms, which significantly impedes the innovative growth of college English education and does not promote the development of college students' all-around English proficiency. This essay focuses…

This is the first study to examine stop voicing perception in the societal (English) and heritage language (Spanish) of bilingual preschoolers. The study a) compares bilinguals' English perception patterns to those of monolinguals; b) it examines how child-internal (age) and external variables (input quantity and input…

Purpose Cantonese lexical tone awareness is closely associated with 1st language Cantonese vocabulary knowledge, but its role in 2nd language English vocabulary knowledge was unclear. We addressed this issue by investigating whether and, if so, how Cantonese lexical tone awareness contributes to English expressive voca…

With the continuous development of the global economy, the degree of internationalization and openness has gradually deepened. Higher English internationalization education also needs to keep pace with the times and keep pace with international development. At this time, it is necessary to build a multi-source informat…

BACKGROUND: Twenty-three million Americans have limited English proficiency. Language barriers can have major adverse consequences in health care, but little is known about whether pharmacies provide adequate care to patients with limited English proficiency. OBJECTIVES: We sought to evaluate pharmacies' ability to pr…

Recordings of Spanish and English sentences by switched-dominance bilingual (SDB) Spanish (i.e., L2-dominant Spanish-English bilinguals) and by L1-dominant Spanish and English controls were presented to L1-dominant Spanish and English listeners, respectively. At -4 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), Spanish and Eng…