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CONTEXT: Despite the substantial amount of health-related information available on the Internet, little is known about the accessibility, quality, and reading grade level of that health information. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate health information on breast cancer, depression, obesity, and childhood asthma available through…

OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship between English language proficiency and mental health service utilisation. METHODS: In September 1993, a sample census was conducted of all mental health services in the State of Victoria, including public and private hospital wards, outpatient consultations provided by psychiat…

With the rapid development of English as a medium of instruction (EMI), many education researchers have attempted to examine the extent to which EMI courses contribute to students' academic success. In a similar vein, several scholars have endeavored to locate the determinants of students' academic success in these cou…

Proverbs are usually regarded as structurally fixed expressions. However, in daily communication, language users often change them to suit their communicative purposes in many ways, resulting in proverb variations. Using the data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA corpus), this study attempts to pre…

The purpose of the current study is to explore listeners' perception of accented speech in terms of confidence and intelligence. To this end, three groups of listeners were asked to rate speakers of English with various accent strengths based on a 9-point scale in terms of accent magnitude, confidence and intelligence.…

In recent research on figurative phrases, factors (e.g., familiarity, transparency, meaning, and decomposability) have played a significant influence on how native and non-native English speakers (various L1 and L1 Arabic) acquire, process, and comprehend figurative language. These factors are not always described and…

Multimorbid patients who enter English NHS hospitals are frequently subject to care pathways designed to assess, diagnose and treat single medical conditions. Opportunities are thereby lost to offer patients more holistic, person-centred care. Hospital organisations elsewhere are known to use in-hospital, multi-special…

Previous studies across languages (English, Spanish, French) have argued that perceptual salience and cue reliability can explain cross-linguistic differences in early comprehension of verbal agreement. Here we tested this hypothesis further by investigating early comprehension in Greek, where markers have high salienc…

This study focuses on voicing assimilation across word boundaries in the speech of second language (L2) users. We compare native speakers of British English to speakers of two West Slavic languages, Czech and Slovak, which, despite their many similarities, differ with respect to voicing assimilation rules. Word-final v…

This study aims to provide a psychometrically sound instrument to measure English classroom teaching enjoyment among Chinese senior high school teachers. To this end, the current researchers developed the English Classroom Teaching Enjoyment Scale by adapting Proietti Ergün and Dewaele's (2021) Foreign Language Te…

This study investigates cross-linguistic asymmetries in noun and verb production in a Hindi-English bilingual with Broca's aphasia (RZ), focusing on the influence of task demands (narrative vs. noun naming, verb naming, repetition), morphological richness, and code-switching (frequency and type). RZ exhibited features…

The implementation of voicelessness may be achieved by glottal spreading or glottal constriction, with both gestures inhibiting vocal fold vibration. Glottal spreading is associated with breathiness, and constriction with glottalization. In many dialects of English, glottalization often occurs at the end of vowels prec…

INTRODUCTION: Research findings from various academic domains have demonstrated that students' self-efficacy (SE) influences their academic performance while limited studies have explored how foreign language reading SE influences reading performance. The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the relationsh…

Recent evidence suggests that domain-general auditory processing (sensitivity to the spectro-temporal characteristics of sounds) helps determine individual differences in L2 speech acquisition outcomes. The current study examined the extent to which focused training could enhance auditory processing ability, and whethe…

Using the traditional English teaching mode is difficult to help correct students, and it is difficult to achieve human-computer interaction in oral English communication. In order to improve the effect of English detection and improve teaching efficiency, this article builds an artificial intelligence-assisted teachin…

Artificial intelligence and Fifth-Generation (5G) communication networks are examples of new information technologies that have aided and facilitated educational reform and progress. Built on the convincing requirements of college English education, with the advantage of artificial intelligence technology, we can enhan…

In the United States, Hispanics with limited English proficiency (LEP) experience disproportionate disparities in health services, a phenomenon that relates to communication and decision making. After a quality improvement review identified a disparity in obstetric services for Hispanic women with LEP, a pilot study di…

OBJECTIVE: To develop and test the reliability of a Thai version of the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS-Th). MATERIAL AND METHOD: A Thai version of the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS-Th) was developed after conducting many steps. The original English version of the International Prostate Symptom…

Noise has the potential to impair cognitive performance. For nonnative speakers, the effect of noise on performance is more severe than their native counterparts. What remains unknown is the effectiveness of countermeasures such as noise attenuating devices in such circumstances. Therefore, the main aim of the present…

Bi- and multilingualism has been shown to have positive effects on the attainment of third and additional languages. These effects, however, depend on the type of bi- and multilingualism and the status of the languages involved (Cenoz, 2003; Jessner, 2006). In this exploratory trend study, we revisit Cummins' Threshold…