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Individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) are a rapidly growing social group in the United States, yet they have been historically under-included in clinical research. This is partly due to the fact that research team members typically conduct the informed consent process in English. While some institutions ha…

This study aimed to investigate how teacher-caring behavior (TCB) influences high school students' English academic performance through the mediating role of academic emotions, drawing on self-determination theory and emotion-regulation theory. The participants were 702 high school students (M = 17.48, SD…

Adults commonly struggle with perceiving and recognizing the sounds and words of a second language (L2), especially when the L2 sounds do not have a counterpart in the learner's first language (L1). We examined how L1 Mandarin L2 English speakers learned pseudo English words within a cross-situational word learning (CS…

INTRODUCTION: Individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) face structural challenges to communication in English-speaking healthcare environments. We performed a systematic review to characterize the relationship between LEP and outcomes in stroke prevention, management, and recovery. METHODS: A systematic revi…

This exploratory study assessed the use of functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to examine hemodynamic response patterns during sentence processing. Four groups of participants: monolingual English children, bilingual Chinese-English children, bilingual Chinese-English adults and monolingual English adults wer…

During the English Civil War and subsequent Restoration, beekeeping provided a ready set of moral examples for those seeking answers about the 'natural' structure of society. The practice itself also underwent a number of substantial changes, moving from a traditional craft practice to a more knowledge-focused, technol…

Grounded in Social Cognitive Theory, this study investigated the associations among self-efficacy, personal motivation, critical thinking, perceived value of English, and English learning performance (ELP) among 322 Chinese EFL learners. The structural equation modeling results showed that students with higher levels o…

Commercial branding stands as a discursive and cultural facet of the contemporary global era where competing brands construct their own identities. From a discourse perspective, a brand is discursively constructed on commercial signs. Accordingly, this study examines the interplay between coffee shop branding and natio…

The current study explores the differences in conceptualisation of the prototypical basic emotion lexicalisations (,,,,,) in English and in Polish. Measures of concreteness, imageability and context availability were collected and analysed across the six semantic categories of basic emotions, across different parts of…

We examined whether and how L1-L2 crosslinguistic formal lexical similarity influences L2 word choice. Our sample included two learner subcorpora, containing 8,500 and 6,390 English texts, written in an educational setting, by speakers of diverse L1s in the A1-B2 CEFR range of L2 proficiency. We quantified similarity b…

To develop the English Writing Enjoyment Scale, I surveyed 30 Chinese-as-First-Language university students of English (Group 1) through a self-narrative inquiry that included but was not limited to psychological, motivational, behavioral, cognitive, and physiological factors. Using a grounded theory approach to analyz…

The number of English Language Learners (ELLs) has been growing worldwide. ELLs are at risk for reading disabilities due to dual difficulties with linguistic and cultural factors. This raises the need for finding practical and efficient reading interventions for ELLs to improve their literacy development and English re…

BACKGROUND: The ability to comprehend a text depends primarily on the knowledge about its words. This study investigated the most frequent words in high impact factor (IF) English nursing journals. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This corpus-based study was conducted on the articles of 13 English nursing journals with an IF of…

Texts or words/pseudowords are often used as stimuli for human verbal activity research. Our study pays attention to decoding processes of grammatical constructions consisted of two-three words--collocations. Russian and English collocation sets without any narrative were presented to Russian-speaking students with dif…

INTRODUCTION: This study investigates the latent motivational structure and qualitative manifestations of motivational withdrawal among some Chinese higher vocational college students learning College English within exam-oriented instructional contexts. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and Learned Helplessnes…

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…

Irony is a complex communicative device that contrasts the explicit, literal meaning with the implicit intent and is sensitive to cultural and linguistic context. Despite growing interest in bilingual irony comprehension, experimentally validated materials for non-Western bilinguals remain scarce. This study addresses…

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…