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The objective of any system of transliteration is obviously to convey to the reader as closely as possible the phonetic value of the transliterated material. Barring phonetic transcriptions, this objective is doubtless best accomplished when (i) minimum use is made of extra marks and extra letter combinations that of n…

Non-native English-speaking law students and international legal practitioners who speak English as an additional language face significant challenges while pursuing legal studies at English-only institutions, participating in professional training or catering to the legal needs of an increasingly diverse clientele. On…

Over 25 million individuals living in America are limited English proficient, many of whom live in rural communities. Adequate language accommodations are critical to providing effective healthcare for these populations. An online questionnaire was delivered to 42 rural facilities in Washington State. It included quest…

With advancements in information technology taking place every day, the current methods of college English teaching are facing unprecedented great challenges. Meanwhile, most college teachers still use obsolete teaching methods in their practice. It seems like IT development offers both benefits and frustration to coll…

The current study investigated the phonetic adjustment mechanisms that underlie perceptual adaptation in first and second language (Dutch-English) listeners by exposing them to a novel English accent containing controlled deviations from the standard accent (e.g. /i/-to-/ɪ/ yielding /krɪm/ instead of /krim/…

One of the key issues in bilingual lexical representation is whether L1 processing is facilitated by L2 words. In this study, we conducted two experiments using the masked priming paradigm to examine how L2-L1 translation priming effects emerge when unbalanced, low proficiency, Korean-English bilinguals performed a lex…

RAN tests were administered to 600 typically developing children, 60 each from grade level one through grade ten (30 boys and 30 girls), who learn two distinct languages, English and Kannada simultaneously from the very first grade. The overall results were in accordance with similar previous studies in English and oth…

IMPORTANCE: Medication adherence is essential to diabetes care. Patient-physician language barriers may affect medication adherence among Latino individuals. OBJECTIVE: To determine the association of patient race/ethnicity, preferred language, and physician language concordance with patient adherence to newly prescri…

We examined how relative language dominance impacts Spanish-English bilinguals' crosslinguistic and nonlinguistic interference resolution abilities during a web-based Spanish picture-word interference naming task and a subsequent spatial Stroop paradigm, and the relationship between the two. Results show the expected i…

This study investigates whether English proficiency moderates core Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) pathways in the context of AI-enhanced English MOOCs for vocational students. Drawing on an extended TAM that links Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU), Perceived Usefulness (PU), Behavioral Intention (BI), and Perceived Learn…

This systematic review was conducted to examine methods and tools used to translate written health-related information from English to Spanish.The design of this study was a systematic review. This review search was of all published articles up to July 2022. Three databases were used: CINAHL Plus, MEDLINE, and PubMed.…

AIMS: Overactive bladder symptom score (OABSS) in English consists of four questionnaires. We proposed to make Bengali version and linguistic validation. SETTINGS: Online survey. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The translation and linguistic validation was done in the following manner: forward Bengali translation, backward En…

One of the significant courses in Chinese universities is English. This course is usually taught by a foreign language instructor. There will, however, necessarily be some communication hurdles between "foreign language teachers" and "native students." This research presents an emotion recognition method for foreign la…