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The accomplishment of translator in standardized English translation of TCM should be paid more attention, since it cannot but influence the foreign academic inter-communion and quality of transmission of TCM.

Aiming at the present tedious English translation of traditional Chinese medicine, the author advocates some approaches to simplify it in order to improve the readability, communicability and quality of translation.

This paper serves as a brief review of the problem of "Chinglish" that is frequent in English medical papers of Chinese authors, and with examples of such linguistic entity and theoretical analysis of its origin, the authors propose its possible solutions.

In this article, we attempt to grammatically classify the mistakes that frequently appear in the English medical papers written by Chinese, for the purpose of drawing attention on these avoidable mistakes from the authors to improve their medical paper writing in English.

The English term ginger originates from Sanskrit sringavera (sringam=horn+vera=body), which was transformed to Latin gingiber and to Old French gingibre, which resulted in ginger in English. The German Ingwer was derived from the same origin, but lost its front sound. The Chinese and Japanese terms for ginger are brief…

With increasing emphasis on sustainability and cultural awareness in education, foreign language teaching is increasingly expected to extend beyond the introduction of target-language cultures alone. However, limited empirical research has explored how to incorporate students' native cultural perspectives in a meaningf…

Positive psychology has been increasingly recognized in EFL learning. However, empirical research on how well-being constructs such as PERMA influence learner outcomes in online MOOC environments remains limited. This study aimed to investigate whether positive emotions predict English performance test scores through t…

American singing accents are prevalent in popular music throughout the English-speaking world. Singing with an American-influenced phonological style is a supralocal norm, referred to here as Pop Song English (PSE). This article presents two perception experiments that explore New Zealand (NZ) listeners' speech process…

BACKGROUND: The acquisition of a rich vocabulary is foundational to language proficiency. In the pedagogical pursuit of effective vocabulary teaching, educators explore diverse methodologies. Researchers investigated the impact of different neurocognitive, metacognitive, and socio-cultural strategies on enhancing vocab…

The current study explored the intelligibility and acceptability ratings of dysarthric speakers with African American English (AAE) and General American English (GAE) dialects by listeners who identify as GAE or AAE speakers, as well as listener ability to identify dialect in dysarthric speech. Eighty-six listeners rat…

This study investigates whether statistical learning ability, conceptualized as a cognitive ability to learn regularities implicitly, is a good predictor for L2 learners' online language processing performance. Native-English-speaking adults, as a control group, and native-Korean-speaking adult L2 learners of English p…

The present study investigated the impacts of mobile assisted vocabulary learningdigital flashcards (DFs). The data were collected from 44 adult English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners in three intact classes in a private language teaching institute in Iran, randomly assigned to experimental (= 27) and control (= 17…

Racial and language minority groups in the U.S. are at a higher risk for morbidity and mortality from colorectal cancer (CRC), partially due to lower screening rates. This is a retrospective cohort study comparing successful multi-target stool DNA test (mt-sDNA) test completion among patients with limited English profi…

Science courses containing English-language terminology are a common implement in "English as a foreign language" (EFL) countries across the globe. In many of these countries, licensing examinations place added significance on terminology competence by requiring health science graduates to demonstrate mastery of Englis…

Previous studies on bilingual children found intact tonal development at the initial stages of interaction between Cantonese and English in successive bilingual children, whereas children exposed to both languages from birth have not been studied in this regard. We examined the production of Cantonese tones by five sim…

A conceptual framework was developed for assessing the sub-level of protection in 185 multiple-use marine protected areas (MPAs) in the English Channel through a survey on management effort. Data were retrieved from 153 MPAs: 4.56% were assigned low management effort, 83.70% were assigned medium management effort, and…

In multilingual nursing education, English-medium practices often dominate teaching, assessment and documentation, positioning students' home languages as informal or inappropriate for legitimate academic participation. This qualitative, descriptive, exploratory and contextual study investigates how nurse educators con…

This study examines the application of Active Language Learning (ALL) strategies to address both theoretical concerns in language pedagogy and practical challenges within Chinese English education. This study draws on Activity Theory and Active Language Learning (ALL) as its theoretical foundation, explaining how inter…

Humor is a kind of cognitive psychology activity, and it is diverse among individuals. One of the main characteristics of talk shows is to produce humorous discourse to make the audience laugh; however, rare studies have made a deeper comparative investigation on the rhetorical strategies in different language humorous…

This paper aims to investigate the internal structure of student academic resilience in language learning, to assess its global and dimensional levels and to examine the gender and age-related differences. Therefore, 1,653 English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, including junior and senior high school students we…