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PURPOSE: The study aimed to understand how bilingual children with typical language development (TLD) and those with developmental language disorder (DLD) use frequent word co-occurrences in their narratives. METHOD: We studied the change over time in the word co-occurrences used by 30 Spanish-English bilingual childr…

INTRODUCTION: Despite many studies exploring the application of digital devices in foreign language learning, only some have investigated the influencing mechanisms of digital nativity on Smartphone usage in this increasingly seamless learning environment. This research aims to explore the relationships between college…

writing is an important tactic for learning from text and the summaries provide information on students' comprehension and learning processes. We investigated the nature of the summaries produced by bilingual adolescents, and whether their summaries were related to their reading abilities in their first and second lang…

The gleam-glum effect is a novel sound symbolic finding that words with the /i:/-phoneme (like gleam) are perceived more positive emotionally than matched words with the /Λ/-phoneme (like glum). We provide data that not only confirm the effect but also are consistent with an explanation that /i:/ and /Λ/ ar…

Visual information about lip and facial movements plays a role in audiovisual (AV) speech perception. Although this has been widely confirmed, previous behavioural studies have shown interlanguage differences, that is, native Japanese speakers do not integrate auditory and visual speech as closely as native English spe…

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the difference in acupuncture treatment regimens for low back pain (LBP) among textbooks, clinical studies and clinical practice, and explore reasons for such differences. METHODS: A systematic review of textbooks, surveys, clinical studies (randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and case studi…

INTRODUCTION: Medical students and researchers need to learn English, not only because it is the means of teaching and learning, but also because its knowledge is necessary in their research activities. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine the importance of the study of English language learning for…

Four experiments explored the effects of specific language characteristics on hemispheric functioning in reading nonwords using a lateralized trigram identification task. Previous research using nonsense consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) trigrams has shown that total error scores reveal a right visual field (RVF) advanta…

Communities with a high prevalence of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) knowledge have a greater out of hospital cardiac arrest survival rate. Within metropolitan Adelaide, 12.4% of the community is from a non-English speaking country and 20.3% of these have a poor proficiency in English. The purpose of this study wa…

PURPOSE: Poor reading comprehension performance by children in the United States is a continuing concern. Early identification and intervention can reduce the number of children with significant reading problems. We documented prekindergarten and kindergarten predictors of Grade 6 reading comprehension for English mono…

I review the literature on reading and deafness, focusing on the role of three broad factors in acquisition and skilled reading: the method of encoding print; language-specific knowledge (i.e., English); and general language knowledge. I explore the contribution of three communication systems to reading: spoken languag…

BACKGROUND: Vertebral fractures associated with osteoporosis are common in individuals over 65, yet most cases go undiagnosed. This is concerning as those with vertebral fractures are at an increased risk of future fractures. To address this gap in healthcare, and facilitate diagnosis, so that bone-protective medicatio…

End product: A document celebrating the English National Board's tenth anniversary was launched last week at a dinner to mark the end of its term of office. From left are English National Board Chief Executive Tony Smith, ENB Chair Jean Hooper. United Kingdom Central Council Chair Dame Audrey Emerton and Chief Nursing…

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has intensified interest in its potential to support English learning in higher education. However, the mechanisms through which students' perceptions and motivations translate into learning achievement remain unclear. Drawing on the Unified Theory of Ac…

Previous research has suggested that fewer schizophrenic and schizotypal traits are reported in a second language than a mother tongue. Such results make sense in the light of the so-called Foreign Language Effect (FLE), whereby bilinguals make more rational decisions and are less influenced by emotions and biases in a…

Financial literacy and access to banking services are still major challenges, especially in multilingual regions. Many people who do not speak English fluently face difficulties using traditional banking online systems. To help solve this problem, we developed a bilingual banking assistant that works in English, Hindi,…

The literature differentiates between two domains of machismo: traditional machismo and caballerismo. Research has largely focused on measuring machismo among English speakers. We evaluated whether Estrada's (2011) 2-factor model of machismo was invariant across languages (English versus a direct Spanish translation).…