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INTRODUCTION: Research on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) in monolingual and bilingual speakers has shown significant differences in L1 versus L2 phonemic perception. In this study, we examined whether the MMN response is sensitive to the differences between L1, L2 and L3/L. METHODS: We compared bioelectrical brain activity…

With the massive use of social media today, mixing between languages in social media text is prevalent. In linguistics, the phenomenon of mixing languages is known as code-mixing. The prevalence of code-mixing exposes various concerns and challenges in natural language processing (NLP), including language identificatio…

This article presents the impact of digital teaching method in the form of Rosetta Stone program on the quality of English language acquisition. The study involved 320 third-year students who study in the People's Republic of China. Group B post-assessment results show an increase in scores on the four assessment crite…

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…

In order to further investigate the network multi-modal learning environment to promote students' ability to English audio-visual effects and improve the quality of teaching effect, an empirical analysis of audio-visual teaching and network multi-modal learning environment theory for English majors was proposed in the…

This study compared reading and mathematics growth trajectories in a statewide dataset of 33,715 students across third through fifth grades. Specifically, we examined growth for English Learners (ELs) who were reclassified as no longer needing English Language services at different grade levels as compared to their nev…

Our research team performed an exploratory analysis of teacher gesturing via a case study of an elementary teacher. We focused on gesturing, a practice found to support both bilingual English learner students' linguistic development and mathematics achievement, during the teacher's engineering and science lessons. The…

BACKGROUND: As English has increasingly become the lingua franca in science and international journals require native-like academic writing standards from nonnative researchers, there is more pressure on nonnative scholars to write their research articles more accurately and appropriately in English. This study was con…

From 2014-2019, Centro SOL provided research consultation services to 77 investigators interested in including Latinx and limited English proficiency populations in their research. The most common requests were for study recruitment (the very most common) and for translation and materials review. Challenges to providin…

Anglophone children in Grades 2 and 5 who attended an intensive French immersion program were examined for linguistic and metalinguistic ability in English and French. Measures of linguistic proficiency (vocabulary and grammatical knowledge) were consistently higher in English and remained so even after five years of i…

This study shows that 4- and 6-month-old infants can discriminate languages (English from French) just from viewing silently presented articulations. By the age of 8 months, only bilingual (French-English) infants succeed at this task. These findings reveal a surprisingly early preparedness for visual language discrimi…

Relationships between socioeconomic status, locus of control, self-concept, and academic achievement were explored in secondary school pupils in the Mmabatho area of Bophuthalswana (Southern Africa). The analyses of data revealed the following: (a) both male and female Batswana adolescents were found significantly more…

A survey of postoperative analgesic administration to non-English speaking Asian women following Caesarean section has shown significant differences when compared to English speaking Caucasian women. The main differences demonstrated were that analgesia was utilised for a shorter period (mean of 16 hours) and that a sm…

It is widely acknowledged that standard clinical measures of hearing assessment can provide no more than a relative measure of social efficiency. A Danish language scale for self-assessment of hearing handicap has been reported both in terms of initial assessment, and of assessing response to rehabilitatory interventio…

In studying the perception of differences between Black English and Standard English by 48 first-grade, urban, Black children, BE and SE were partitioned into content, i.e., syntax and lexicon, and style, i.e., suprasegmentals or prosodic features of phonology. A discrimination task was designed to test whether the sub…