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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…

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…

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…

OBJECTIVE: To discuss the distribution characteristics of language areas in Chinese-English non-fluent late bilinguals. METHODS: Six Chinese-English bilinguals with eloquent tumors underwent awake-surgeries. The activated areas of BOLD-fMRI were obtained as the patients performed pure naming, verb generation, and abst…

To compare 7-day readmission among patients with a non-English primary language in language-serving versus non-language-serving hospitals.We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the New Jersey State Inpatient Database (2010-2022). We identified 578 030 inpatient discharges home among patients with a non-…

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to assess the rate of positive depression screens in a randomly selected group of 111 patients at St. Luke's Free Medical Clinic in Spartanburg, South Carolina, while also looking for differences in positive depression screeners between English- and Spanish-speaking patients. Our h…

BACKGROUND: The Internet serves as an extensive database with easy access to diverse content, positioning it as an important source of medical information today. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality and credibility of information available online regarding the use of the ketogenic diet in the treatment of…

PURPOSE: This article presents a large-scale example of culturally responsive assessment and analysis of multilingual Vietnamese-English-speaking children and their family members using the VietSpeech Protocol involving (a) examining all spoken languages, (b) comparing ambient phonology produced by family members, (c)…

OBJECTIVE: To examine associations of patient ratings of communication by health care providers with patient language (English vs Spanish) and ethnicity (Latino vs white). METHODS: A random sample of patients receiving medical care from a physician group association concentrated on the West Coast was studied. A total…