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With the development of Internet of Things technology, the things that machines do instead of humans are becoming more and more complicated. Machine translation has developed rapidly in the past few decades, and the translation system has also been greatly improved. People's life and work are inseparable from machine t…

In the era of in-depth application of knowledge technology in the field of education, the teaching mode combining school English teaching and network data technology is widely used in school English education. Teaching resources have become electronic resources under the influence of digital information technology. How…

BACKGROUND: Previous research in the field of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has not yet comprehensively investigated the interaction between learners' expertise and the instructional effectiveness. AIMS: Taking cognitive load theory as the theoretical framework, a study was conducted to investigate t…

OBJECTIVE: It is well established in the literature that English diagnostic tests should not be directly applied to speakers whose primary language is Spanish. Normative nasalance data across word and sentence-level stimuli among Spanish-English bilingual children living in the United States have not been provided. The…

This review reflects on my 43 years of teaching and research at Showa Pharmaceutical University (SPU), Japan. As an English teacher, I have struggled with the question, "How can I, with no specialized knowledge of pharmacy, support pharmacy students and pharmacists?" During my career, a flood of reforms swept through E…

OBJECTIVES: English has become the most frequently used language for scientific communication in the biomedical field. Therefore, scholars from all over the world try to publish their findings in English. This trend has a number of advantages, along with several disadvantages. METHODS: In the current article, the most…

We asked whether increased exposure to iambs, two-syllable words with stress on the second syllable (e.g., guitar), by way of another language - Spanish - facilitates English learning infants' segmentation of iambs. Spanish has twice as many iambic words (40%) compared to English (20%). Using the Headturn Preference Pr…

The goals of the current study were twofold. The first goal was to describe levels of mathematics and science self-efficacy and achievement among a sample of students with varying levels of English language proficiency. The second goal was to examine the extent to which students' self-efficacy explains the relation bet…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Medicare coverage decisions are complex. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides a hotline, handbook, and website to help Medicare beneficiaries understand their benefits and coverage options, yet it is unclear what factors affect beneficiary use of these resources. We exa…

Listeners often have difficulty understanding unfamiliar speech (e.g., non-native speech), but they are able to adapt to or improve their ability to understand unfamiliar speech. However, it is unclear whether non-native listeners demonstrate adaptation to novel native English speech broadly with relatively limited exp…

Rhotic sounds are some of the most challenging sounds for L2 learners to acquire. This study investigates the production of English rhotic sounds by Mandarin-English bilinguals with two English proficiency levels. The production of the English /ɹ/ by 17 Mandarin-English bilinguals was examined with ultrasound ima…

While the technology integration has been widely acknowledged, insufficient effort has been made to understand English teachers' perceptions of emergency remote teaching (ERT). Given English is the primary foreign language in China and English teachers' perceptions and adoptions of ERT impact the attainment of teaching…

BACKGROUND: English language proficiency is increasingly vital for higher education institutions due to globalization and the internationalization of academic programs. In Kosovo, public universities are experiencing similar pressures to adopt English as a medium of communication and instruction. METHODS: This study i…

English learning occupies a very important position in college students' learning, and English translating is a skill that must be mastered to learn English, and translating can be used to measure the comprehensive level of college students' English learning. However, surveys show that English translation is still a di…

Speech perception patterns are strongly influenced by one's native phonology. It is generally accepted that native English listeners rely primarily on spectral cues when perceiving vowels, making limited use of duration cues because English lacks phonemic vowel length. However, the literature on vowel perception by Eng…

Limited empirical research on the key competencies of front-line English teachers, particularly primary and middle school English teachers in rural regions, exists in the current literature. This research focuses on front-line instructors and examines their mastery of the key competencies in English language teaching.…

There is a considerable gap in English reading achievement between English-language learners and native speakers in the United States. Differentiation of whether English language learners' struggles are symptomatic of reading disability or related to second language acquisition is often challenging. These issues highli…

Research-based learning is a comprehensive practical course that requires students to identify research topics from their study life and social life and acquires knowledge and applied knowledge through independent inquiry in a way similar to scientific research. Under the framework of CT (constructivism theory), throug…

Paired-associate learning is one of the most commonly used paradigms to study human memory. In many of these studies, participants are typically told to learn foreign language-English translations, such as Swahili-English or Lithuanian-English pairs. One limitation of these currently available foreign language-English…

This review systematically examines the benefits and challenges of integrating Virtual Reality (VR) into English language instruction in higher education. Analysing 27 studies published between 2014 and 2024, the findings reveal that VR has been predominantly utilised as an instructional tool across diverse domains, in…