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Studies of reading have shown the "Matthew effect" of exposure to print on reading skill: poor readers avoid reading, and ability develops more slowly compared to peers, while good readers improve more quickly through increased exposure. Yet it is difficult to determine just how much an individual reads. The Author Rec…

OBJECTIVES: Reading performance has been considered as an effective functional endpoint for low vision. Contrary to many extensive studies for reading performance in English, there are few systematic studies for Chinese reading. METHODS: In the present study, the reading performance of 30 normally sighted Chinese coll…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate foreign language acquisition at school in cochlear implant patients. STUDY DESIGN: Cohort study. SETTING: CI center. PATIENTS: Forty three cochlear implants (CI) patients (10-18 yr) were evaluated. CI nonusers and patients with CI-explantation, incomplete datasets, mental retardation, or conco…

Two Japanese students were taught to pronounce and discriminate English words that contain unfamiliar phonemic contrasts (e.g., rock and lock). Teaching pronunciation was found to be easier than teaching listening discrimination. Teaching listening discrimination resulted in collateral improvement in pronunciation and,…

A uniform health history form in seven languages, plus English, is presented. They may be copied for use by private practitioners, with the English form as a standard referrant for the dentist.

INTRODUCTION: This quasi-experimental study investigated whether formative assessment enhances EFL students' motivation and English achievement. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory, which highlights autonomy, competence and relatedness as core psychological needs, the study examined how formative assessment may satisf…

Elite athlete cohorts in most sports outlive the general population. We aimed to assess the standardised mortality ratios (SMR) of male professional footballers in England from the 20th Century compared to the general population in England. We included players born between 1900-1972 who had played for the best performi…

In the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, studying a list of semantically related words leads to false memory for the critical non-studied word that is related to all the words in the study list. Previous studies questioning whether bilinguals are more prone to false memory in their first language (L1) or second…

The soaring demand for intercultural competence (IC) in the globalized world has made it a key concern in foreign language education. Most existing training on IC has often focused on providing immersive intercultural experiences, equipping learners with cultural knowledge, and simulating intercultural situations. Howe…

This study examined the spoken narrative skills of a group of bilingual Mandarin-English speaking 3-6-year-olds ( = 25) in Australia, using a remote online story-retell task. Bilingual preschoolers are an understudied population, especially those who are speaking typologically distinct languages such as M…

Research involving monolinguals has demonstrated that language impairment can be noticed in the early years and tends to persist into adolescence. More recently, research has begun to address the challenges of identifying and treating Developmental Language Disorders (DLD) in English Language Learners (ELLs). Developme…

It is very crucial that dental students who comprise our future dental workforce are adequately trained in communication skills. This training is especially important because of the increasing population of English as Second Language (ESL) patients in our community health centers, dental offices, and dental schools. Th…

This event-related potential study investigates whether semantically related words facilitate the processing of English novel metaphors and how this effect varies across within- and between-language contexts. Spanish-English/English-Spanish bilinguals performed a meaningfulness decision task in response to sentences in…

With the growing demand for English language teaching, the efficient and accurate evaluation of students' writing ability has become a key focus in English education. This study introduces a Hybrid Feature-based Cross-Prompt Automated Essay Scoring (HFC-AES) model that leverages deep learning for intelligent text analy…

Low health literacy contributes significantly to cancer health disparities disadvantaging minorities and the medically underserved. Immigrants to the United States constitute a particularly vulnerable subgroup of the medically underserved, and because many are non-native English speakers, they are pre-disposed to encou…

UNLABELLED: Accessing and receiving quality healthcare in an unfamiliar health system is a significant challenge for many new immigrants and refugees. This study aims to provide a three-phase model to develop a web-based health information website that helps populations with limited English proficiency (LEP) increase h…