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The study investigated the efficacy and viability of American Sign Language (ASL)/English bilingual education for public schools serving deaf and hard of hearing children. Prior research related to ASL/English bilingual education is reviewed. Quantitative data related to the reading comprehension achievement of 25 deaf…

This study investigates subject omission in six English-Inuktitut simultaneous bilingual children, aged 1;8-3;9, to examine whether there are cross-language influences in their language development. Previous research with other language pairs has shown that the morphosyntax of one language can influence the development…

This study examines voice perturbation parameters of the sustained [a] in English and of the eight vowels in Turkish to discover whether any difference exists between these languages, and whether a correlation exists between voice perturbation parameters and articulatory and acoustic properties of the Turkish vowels. E…

This paper explores the role of semantic transparency in the representation and processing of English compounds. We focus on the question of whether semantic transparency is best viewed as a property of the entire multimorphemic string or as a property of constituent morphemes. Accordingly, we investigated the processi…

Unlike English, Chinese uses a numerical system for naming months and days. This study explored whether this difference in naming affects the development of simple calendar calculation. Eight- and 10-year-old children as well as undergraduates in China and the United States were asked to name the day or month that come…

Suicide was a crime in England and Wales until 1961. This paper compares the English legal treatment of suicide with that in other Western countries. The delayed English decriminalization of suicide is a likely result of the nature of English common law, rather than a reflection of actual public opinion and medico-lega…

BACKGROUND: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for health information, but concerns exist regarding performance disparities for non-English speakers, potentially exacerbating health inequities. Appropriate information is critical for patients with limited English proficiency undergoing orthopedic proced…

IMPORTANCE: Language concordance between patients and physicians may improve health outcomes; the extent to which academic ophthalmology centers meet the needs of limited English proficiency populations remains unclear. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate alignment between ophthalmologists language skills at US academic ophthalmol…

BACKGROUND: Disparities in health care services between Hispanics and whites in the United States are well documented. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to determine whether language spoken at home identifies Hispanics at risk for not receiving recommended health care services. DESIGN: The design of the study…

Fellows in the 2024 joint JOGNN and NWH editorial fellowship address the challenges faced by authors for whom English is an additional language and offer practical recommendations for those authors and reviewers.

The director of workforce at a trust that struggles to recruit nurses from outside the European Union because many fail to pass the required English test decided to sit the exam himself.

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 reference for the dentist.

Several experiments investigated the effect of word length on recognition thresholds for both familiar English words and unfamiliar pseudowords, the thresholds measured both with and without a stimulus mask. For familiar English words, length had no effect either with or without a mask. For unfamiliar pseudowords, leng…

In Australia there are many ethnic groups with varied social and traditional backgrounds. The English migrants, while being predominant in number, are considered to have the least problems, since their emotional and physical environment is similar to that of Australia. Migrants from Western Europe, while having an init…

Traditional English corpora mainly collect information from a single modality, but lack information from multimodal information, resulting in low quality of corpus information and certain problems with recognition accuracy. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes to introduce depth information into multimodal…

English is widely used as ain academic settings, including academic writing, in the modern age. When faced with complex writing tasks that involve multiple sources, the ability to effectively employ writing strategies becomes crucial for achieving writing success. This is particularly true for first-year university stu…

INTRODUCTION: Reading is an attempt to comprehend the writer's message for personal growth and success in the relevant fields. Thus, psychologists consider it a multifaceted cognitive process of constructing meanings from texts. The present study was conducted to determine the relationships among students' reading habi…

Previous research on linguistic relativity and economic decisions hypothesized that speakers of languages with obligatory tense marking of future time reference (FTR) should value future rewards less than speakers of languages which permit present tense FTR. This was hypothesized on the basis of obligatory linguistic m…

OBJECTIVES: In Japan, there is no established method to assess the ability to read and write in English. To address this problem, we sought to develop a screening test for the early detection of students who show difficulties in reading and writing in English. METHODS: The participants were 425 fifth- and sixth-grade…