37,948,185 papers · showing 2,701–2,720 · for “English” · from PubMed, enriched with Crossref, Unpaywall and Europe PMC · 4781 ms

This study investigates cross-language lexical competition in the bilingual mental lexicon. It provides evidence for the occurrence of inhibition as well as the commonly reported facilitation during the production of cognates (words with similar phonological f…

BACKGROUND: The Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ), measuring task performance, contextual performance, and counterproductive work behavior, was developed in The Netherlands. OBJECTIVES: To cross-culturally adapt the IWPQ from the Dutch to the A…

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Limited research indicates that using English language only surveys in prevalence studies conducted in the general population or in specific ethnic populations may result in unrepresentative samples and biased results. In this study, we…

BACKGROUND: When comparing the health of two populations, it is not enough to compare the prevalence of chronic diseases. The objective of this study is therefore to propose a metric of health based on domains of functioning to determine whether the English ar…

This study aimed to determine how deeply a word is processed in the bilingual brain before the word's language membership plays a role in lexical selection. In two ERP experiments, balanced Spanish-English bilinguals read lists of words and pseudowords in Span…

AIM: This is a report of a study which evaluated simulation-based learning as a teaching strategy for improving participants' ENP reading proficiency in the senior college program of students whose first language is Chinese, not English. BACKGROUND: Simulatio…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a supplemental Spanish language instruction program for children who spoke Spanish as their native language and were attending English-only preschool programs. Specifically, the study evaluated t…

BACKGROUND: Latinos are the fastest growing minority group in the United States with a significant percentage of this population having limited English proficiency. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether mode of interpretation influences satisfaction of limited Engl…

The present study investigated developmental changes in lexical comprehension skills in early sequential bilinguals, in both Spanish (L1) and English (L2), exploring the effects of age, years of experience, and basic-level cognitive processing (specifically th…

PURPOSE: To examine for the first time adolescent substance use by ethnicity, given the high proportion of migrants from non-English-speaking countries in New South Wales, (NSW), Australia. METHODS: Data from four surveys of NSW secondary school students in 1…

Nurses from a group campaigning for the rights of EU citizens in the UK after Brexit are meeting the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to press for the pass mark for English language tests to be lowered.

BACKGROUND: English for medical purposes (EMP) is essential for medical students as it serves as a foundational language for medical communication and education. However, students often undervalue its importance within the medical curriculum. Given their deman…

Prior research on the phonetics of code-switching has shown that bilinguals often experience short-term cross-linguistic interference, where the productions of one language shift towards the opposite language. Yet, these studies, most frequently employing a re…

Existing research on EFL learners' attitudes towards English language textbooks primarily investigates metaphors at the level of mental spaces, limiting insights into embodied cognition and experience. This study extends the analysis of metaphors to a more sch…

Listeners adapt efficiently to new talkers by using lexical knowledge to resolve perceptual uncertainty. This adaptation has been widely observed, both in first (L1) and in second languages (L2). Here, adaptation was tested in both the L1 and L2 of speakers of…

This study set out to examine existence of a shared-dialect effect, a phenomenon that when a rater shares the same dialect with a candidate, the rater is more likely to give the candidate a higher score in English speaking tests. Ten Cantonese-speaking raters…

The paper measures the impact of the developed approach to teaching the translation theory, using the psycholinguistic features of the English language. The factor analysis validation framework was used to control the data of this study. 190 s-year studen…