37,946,231 papers · showing 2,941–2,960 · for “English” · from PubMed, enriched with Crossref, Unpaywall and Europe PMC · 5827 ms

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 inf…

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 participant…

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 pseud…

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 preve…

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, bilingu…

BACKGROUND: Patients now consult large language models (LLMs) for orthodontic concerns, but most evaluations sit in English and focus on factual accuracy. We compared three current LLMs (Claude Opus 4.5, GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Flash) on patient-facing responses in…

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 equatio…

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 seman…

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…

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 physi…

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 f…

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…

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 na…

Translating scientific findings from English to other native languages is essential to make sure that they can be integrated into timely and informed dialogue with policymakers and a diverse range of audiences who are affected by the science. Here, we present…

In the last third of the nineteenth century an older model of folk migration was challenged and ultimately gave way to a new model of racial invasion. Where the first was associated with comparative philology and an evolutionary account of social institutions,…

Under a variety of conditions, people take longer to make judgments about odd than about even digits and digit names. In English the words "odd" and "even" have multiple meanings. Perhaps the multiple meanings of these words are responsible for the slowing of…

Twenty Hebrew speaking subjects identified sets of six digits paired with environmental sounds. Comparison of their performance with those of Japanese- and English-speakers (Hatta & Dimond, 1981) showed that while there were no group differences in overall lev…

In a study of attitudes to violence in English and Northern Irish schoolchildren, 178 children, 10-11-years-old, completed a questionnaire relating to eight examples of political and non-political violence. The children were distinguished by sex, religion and…

The usage of rhetorics in English medical papers was grammatically summarized. Ellipsis, substitution and inversion in the rhetorics are introduced in details.

In view of an ever-increasing infiltration of the German medical vocabulary by Britishisms and Americanisms, a linguistic attempt was made to categorize this phraseology as follows: more or less incorporated terminology, "internationalized" terms, identical tr…