37,944,045 papers · showing 3,381–3,400 · for “English” · from PubMed, enriched with Crossref, Unpaywall and Europe PMC · 2156 ms

Many studies have examined literacy and related skills among learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), but little attention has been given to the role of oral language within a cross-linguistic framework despite the fact that English is the most widely…

To evaluate the stress and health-related quality of life experienced by native and non-native English-speaking students enrolled in a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) program.This study assessed PharmD students at a single institution using a self-administered onl…

OBJECTIVE: Limited data exist describing possible delays in patient transfer from the emergency department (ED) as a result of language barriers and the effects of interpretation services. We described the differences in ED length of stay (LOS) before intensiv…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the readability of breast cancer online patient educational materials (OPEM) written in Spanish and to compare to equivalent English-language OPEM. METHODS: The breast cancer-related terms cáncer de seno…

BACKGROUND Learning medical English is particularly challenging for non-native English-speaking medical students. The Smart Class teaching module is a new online teaching module for rehabilitation-related medical English, the efficacy of which has yet to be es…

BACKGROUND: Evidence about the effect on meta-analysis results of including unpublished trials or those published in languages other than English is unclear or discordant. PURPOSE: To compare treatment effects between published and unpublished randomized cont…

BACKGROUND: Lateral temporal neural measures (Na and T-complex Ta and Tb) of the auditory evoked potential (AEP) index maturation of auditory/speech processing. These measures are also sensitive to language experience in adults. This paper examined neural resp…

OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of facilitated advance care planning (ACP) discussions in elderly Italian and Greek-speaking inpatients compared to English-speaking inpatients. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This cross-sectional stu…

BACKGROUND: In times of globalization there is an increasing use of English in the medical literature. The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of English-language articles in multi-language medical journals on their international recognition--as mea…

BACKGROUND: The role of social-environmental factors in physical activity (PA) within lower income and ethnic minority populations is understudied. This study explored correlates of age-related PA and perceived walkability (PW). METHODS: Cross-sectional data…

Brain imaging studies have identified a left-lateralized network of regions that are engaged when monolinguals read. However, for individuals who are native speakers of two languages, it is unclear whether this pattern of activity is maintained across both lan…

INTRODUCTION: This study examined the associations among pre-service English teachers' evaluations of teacher teaching quality, perceived school climate, academic anxiety, and learning motivation. METHODS: Guided by social cognitive theory and sociocultural t…

This study focuses on the application of virtual reality (VR) technology in English language teaching (ELT), and discusses the effect of combining VR with machine translation (MT) technology. VR technology is introduced into the study to provide innovative tea…

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 e…

The surge of globalisation and the recognition of English as a lingua franca have propelled the worldwide advancement of English as a foreign language (EFL) education. Formative assessment can support the English language teaching and learning in classroom set…

Behavior analysis is virtually alone among disciplines in assuming that the orderly arrangement of words in sentences, or grammar, arises from exposure to contingencies of reinforcement. In the face of the novelty, subtlety, complexity, and speed of acquisitio…

Many studies of speech accommodation focus on native speakers with different dialects, whereas only a limited number of studies work on L2 speakers' accommodation and discuss theories for second language (L2) accommodation. This paper aimed to fill the theoret…

Globalization and informatization are reshaping human life and social behaviors. The purpose is to explore the worldwide strategies to cultivate international talents with a global vision. As a global language with the largest population, English, and especial…

Investigations of the so-called 'foreign language effect' have shown that emotional experience is language-dependent in bilingual individuals. Response to negative experiences, in particular, appears attenuated in the second language (L2). However, the human b…

This study explores the extent to which a bilingual advantage can be observed for three tasks in an established population of fully fluent bilinguals from childhood through adulthood. Welsh-English simultaneous and early sequential bilinguals, as well as Engli…