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The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and the continuous reform of English education in China have greatly reshaped the professional requirements for college English teachers. In contrast to the predominance of general teacher perspectives in adaptive expertise research, college English teaching offers…

This secret shopper study compares the wait times for scheduling a first-time primary-care appointment among adults enrolled in Medicaid Managed Care who speak English, Spanish, or Mandarin in the Los Angeles, Houston, and New York Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Primary-care practices in Medicaid Managed Care Organiza…

Filler particles likein English orin German show subtle language-specific differences and their variation in form is related to socio-linguistic variables like gender. The use of fillers in a second language has been shown to differ from monolinguals' filler particle use in both frequency and form in different language…

The development of efficient and reliable online assessments has become increasingly important in the digital era. We developed a 10-min online word reading assessment of global English based on the existing paper-and-pencil version of our English silent word reading test. The test includes two parts, namely, random wo…

To examine how L1 influences L2 reading in the brain, two late bilingual groups, Korean-English (KE) and Chinese-English (CE), performed a visual word rhyming judgment task in their L2 (English) and were compared to L1 control groups (i.e., KK and CC). The results indicated that the L2 activation is similar to the L1 a…

Scholars have long recognized the importance of liberty in Milton's early prose, but they tend to center their analysis on republicanism. Although he would go on to express republicanism, Milton's early tracts tie liberty to English political and legal traditions rather than classical ones. Milton, in his early tracts,…

On the basis of a review of the requirements by some famous medical journals, along with personal experiences, the authors summarize the general guidelines for writing Materials and Methods section in English medical papers, which could be of value for potential contributors of English research papers.

We investigated research activities on schizophrenia in 17 non-English speaking (13 European: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden and 4 Asian: China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) countries via a MEDLINE database survey. Despite the…

The case history of a fifty seven year old Kannada-English bilingual who suddenly lost his ability to read is presented. The relative severity of the reading disorder at various levels, in Kannada and English, as well as its recovery is described. The possible reasons for the findings as well as their implications for…

BACKGROUND: An increasing number of children in the UK and Ireland are growing up speaking more than one language. The many advantages of bilingualism are acknowledged; however, this increased linguistic diversity presents particular challenges for speech and language therapists (SLTs). The case is often more complex w…

BACKGROUND: Written discharge instructions improve patient understanding and self-management after hospitalization. While a small number of studies have evaluated the quality of hospital discharge instructions, none have focused on patients with a non-English language preference (NELP) or looked for potential dispariti…

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…

BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have increasing applications in healthcare; however, their accuracy and readability across different languages remain unclear. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the performance of ChatGPT-5 and DeepSeek-V3 on bruxism-related questions in English and Turkish. METHO…

OBJECTIVE: To assess differences in U.S.-based abortion fund messaging on social media in English and Spanish. Abortion funds are private philanthropic organizations that provide abortion seekers with direct funding and logistical support for abortion care. STUDY DESIGN: This multi-methods study applied linguistic and…

PURPOSE: To investigate the association between primary household language and vision testing among children living in the United States from 2016 to 2020. METHODS: This analysis used data for children aged 3-17 years from the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), combining survey responses from 2016 to 20…

PURPOSE: In the context of the recent expectation for state Early Hearing Detection and Intervention programs to track language milestones of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children, we examine how to leverage statewide assessment programs for improving language outcomes of DHH children. We present the degree to which…

Theories suggest that efficient recognition of English words depends on flexible letter-position coding, demonstrated by the fact that transposed-letter primes (e.g., JUGDE-judge) facilitate written word recognition more than substituted-letter primes (e.g., JUFBE-judge). The multiple route model predicts that reading…

OBJECTIVES: A critical focus of pediatric hospital systems is to improve the quality of hospital-to-home transitions. Although validated patient-reported measures evaluating these improvement efforts exist for English-speaking families, a comprehensive measure to assess transition quality among families who speak a lan…

AIM: To report on the effects of a smartphone application, among the medical staff and medical students, for learning English as a foreign language. METHODS: We conducted an exploratory quasi-experimental study among eight medical staff and 10 medical students in Japan. The participants used an application called ABC…

Parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) is a best-practice treatment for behavior problems in young children. In PCIT, therapists coach parents during in-vivo interactions to strengthen the parent-child relationship and teach parents effective ways of managing difficult child behaviors. Past research has found that dif…