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Oral translation in English serves as a critical conduit for international communication and cultural exchange. However, the prevalent variations in pronunciation and the rapid pace of spoken language currently impede the efficacy of synchronous translation methods. To improve the quality and efficiency of synchronous…

Archibald's article makes a strong case for abstract symbolic representations in the phonological grammars of second language learners/users (L2ers). The evidence he brings to bear on this comes principally from the prosodic domain. However, the case for abstractness is hardest to defend in the segmental domain, specif…

PURPOSE: Determining if suspected speech errors in bilingual children are due to bilingual language acquisition or a speech sound disorder is challenging for speech-language pathologists (SLPs). This study investigates how the productions of nonword imitation (NWI) tasks of English-Dutch bilingual children differ from…

False political narratives are nearly inescapable on social media in the United States. They are a particularly acute problem for Latinos, and especially for those who rely on Spanish-language social media for news and information. Studies have shown that Latinos are vulnerable to misinformation because they rely more…

Writing is essential for academic and professional success. This descriptive study aimed to investigate the challenges faced by Ethiopian university students. It focused on 680 regular undergraduate students at Mizan Tepi University selected through simple random sampling. Researchers employed tests, questionnaires, an…

This study examined instructional practices and challenges English language teachers face in elementary schools. This study used a phenomenological approach and a mixed-method design. The data were collected through four tools: questionnaires, case studies, interviews, and observations in eight elementary schools in wh…

The relevance of the research lies in the fact that in the modern Kazakh and English languages there are a huge number of expressive techniques of phraseological expressions, which are actively used in one way or another. The aim of the study is to conduct a cognitive linguistic analysis of the features of phraseologic…

Developing academic literacies is becoming an important research topic in TESOL and has received increasing scholarly attention. One of the difficulties in developing university students' academic literacy in English language speaking is the lack of an authentic English language learning environment and the way to help…

INTRODUCTION: The objective of this bibliometric analysis was to investigate the citation pattern of studies that have developed a diagnostic tool to diagnose appendicitis. METHODS: We investigated characteristics of citations, publication frequency, evolution of citations, and fluctuation of previously highly cited s…

Assigning stress to polysyllabic words is a crucial aspect of reading aloud in English. Previous research demonstrated that native English speakers are sensitive to word endings as probabilistic orthographic cues to stress assignment. However, little is known about if second language (L2) learners of English are sensit…

Social interactions have cognitive and emotional benefits for older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The prevalence of loneliness and isolation in this population has been repeatedly noted, but interventions remain limited. We designed a program to connect older adults with MCI with an engaging volunteering…

To improve the function of machine translation to adapt to global language translation, the work takes deep neural network (DNN) as the basic theory, carries out transfer learning and neural network translation modeling, and optimizes the word alignment function in machine translation performance. First, the work imple…

Community-based telehealth programs (CTPs) allow patients to regularly monitor health at community-based facilities. Evidence from community-based telehealth programs is scarce. In this paper, we assess factors of retention-patients remaining active participants-in a CTP called the Telehealth Intervention Programs for…

English as a verb-medial language has a short-before-long preference, whereas Korean and Japanese as verb-final languages show a long-before-short preference. In second language (L2) research, little is known regarding how L1 processing strategies affect the ultimate attainment of target structures. Existing work has s…

In this study we investigated parafoveal processing by L1 and late L2 speakers of English (L1 German) while reading in English. We hypothesized that L2ers would make use of semantic and orthographic information parafoveally. Using the gaze contingent boundary paradigm, we manipulated six parafoveal masks in a sentence…

OBJECTIVE: Examine the effect of language experience on auditory evoked and oscillatory brain responses to lexical tone in passive (ACC) and active (P300) listening conditions. DESIGN: Language experience was evaluated using two groups, Mandarin- vs. English-listeners (with vs. without lexical tone experience). Two Ma…

Native-speaker listeners constantly predict upcoming units of speech as part of language processing, using various cues. However, this process is impeded in second-language listeners, as well as when the speaker has an unfamiliar accent. Whereas previous research has largely concentrated on the pronunciation of individ…

In laboratory tasks, involuntary cognitions of various kinds (e.g., mental imagery) have been elicited by external stimuli. These effects reveal, among other things, the capacities of involuntary processes. In most cases, these cognitions do not require, for their generation, executive functions such as a shift in sele…

Parenting is multidimensional and dynamic, involving a complex set of behaviors as well as thousands of decisions and interactions that affect the lives of children. Numerous parenting measures have been developed over the years, but very few have been shown to have strong psychometric properties. Further, of those wit…

PURPOSE: This study investigates the production of voiceless alveolar and postalveolar fricatives and affricates by bilingual and monolingual children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants (CIs) and their peers with normal hearing (NH). METHOD: Fifty-four children participated in our study, including 12 Spanish-…