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This article explores the experiences of linguicism of Quebec English-speaking and Franco-Ontarian postsecondary students and how they respond to these experiences. Using Goffman's theory of stigma and a qualitative approach, this article presents findings that emerged from interviews conducted between January and June…

This study explored native speakers' linguistic intuition as revealed in judging the grammaticality of sentences. Speakers of English (n = 36) and Japanese (n = 57) judged the relative grammaticality of sentences involving a verb which occurred together with one, two or three arguments. Findings showed that English spe…

We propose that shared features (noncontrastive) between African American English (AAE) and Standard American English (SAE) may be more diagnostically salient than features not shared (contrastive) when identifying children of AAE language backgrounds with language disorders. The syntax of child speakers of AAE with la…

This study explores how teacher competence influences university students’ English learning motivation in China, through the mediating roles of students’ psychological flourishing and engagement, and whether integrating AI in teaching moderates these effects. Guided by self-determination theory (SDT), we…

BACKGROUND: Accurate prediction of academic performance is essential for selecting students into competitive medical and health science programs. In Saudi Arabia, standardized cognitive assessments-such as the General Aptitude Test (GAT) and Scholastic Achievement Admission Test (SAAT)-are widely used for admissions. T…

The burgeoning development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has unleashed transformative potential in reshaping English language education. However, the complex interplay of learner, technology, pedagogy, and contextual factors that shape the effectiveness of GenAI-assisted language learning remains undere…

AIM: To explore whether the relationship between mental health diagnosis (i.e., mood or neurotic, stress-related, or somatoform disorder) and pain is moderated by language in patients with limited English proficiency (LEP). Southeast Asian languages (i.e., Hmong, Lao, Khmer) and Spanish were compared with English. MET…

Research in recent years has explored the vocabulary size (lexical breadth) of bilingual children, but less is known about the richness of bilingual word knowledge (lexical depth), and about how knowledge of words in the two languages interact. This study explores how bilingual narrative intervention with vocabulary in…

This pilot study investigated whether language of test administration (English versus Spanish) influences story recall sensitivity for early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Hispanic Americans. Participants included 18 progressors who were initially cognitively normal or had mild cognitive impairment but later…

This study aims to provide a psychometrically sound instrument to measure English classroom teaching enjoyment among Chinese senior high school teachers. To this end, the current researchers developed the English Classroom Teaching Enjoyment Scale by adapting Proietti Ergün and Dewaele's (2021) Foreign Language Te…

In English-dominant Singapore, Chinese families make decisions about shared reading quantity, language allocation, and reading orientation at home. This study examined these three dimensions among 39 Singaporean Chinese families with children aged 5-6 years and their associations with children's language abilities and…

People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) experience significant health disparities primarily due to barriers in communication accessibility. Approximately 500,000 individuals in the United States primarily use American Sign Language (ASL) and frequently encounter difficulties with informed consent or intake forms t…

The primary objective of this study was to investigate the influence of culture shock, acculturation strategies, and sociocultural adjustment on the perceived Turkish and English language proficiency of international students in Turkey. Data were collected from 3554 international students in Turkey whose native languag…

Learning to read requires the specialization of a region in the left fusiform gyrus known as the visual word form area (VWFA). This region, which initially responds to faces and objects, develops specificity for print over a long trajectory of instruction and practice. VWFA neurons may be primed for print because of th…

The linguistic similarity hypothesis states that it is more difficult to segregate target and masker speech when they are linguistically similar. For example, recognition of English target speech should be more impaired by the presence of Dutch masking speech than Mandarin masking speech because Dutch and English are m…

Surveillance for Zika virus was enhanced in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean following emergence of the virus in Brazil in May 2015. The first autochthonous case of Zika in the Caribbean was reported by Suriname in November 2015, and the virus subsequently spread rapidly throughout the region. Caribbean Public…

Introduction There is a deficit of avenues for obtaining dementia information in the Asian American community. This study aims to compare the content and quality differences between websites providing information on dementia as found by a Google search conducted both in simplified Chinese characters and in English. Met…

PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to compare vocabulary size and composition in 2-year-olds learning Polish or English as measured by the Language Development Survey (LDS; Rescorla, 1989). METHOD: Participants were 199 Polish toddlers (M = 24.14 months, SD = 0.35) and 422 U.S. toddlers (M = 24.69 months, SD = 0…

Speech perception abilities vary substantially across listeners, particularly in adverse conditions including those stemming from environmental degradation (e.g., noise) or from talker-related challenges (e.g., nonnative or disordered speech). This study examined adult listeners' recognition of words in phrases produce…

PURPOSE: The current study was designed to (a) describe average hourly Language Environment Analysis (LENA) data for preschool-age Spanish-English bilinguals (SEBs) and typically developing monolingual peers and (b) compare LENA data with mean length of utterance in words (MLUw) and total number of words (TNW) calculat…