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IMPORTANCE: Medication adherence is essential to diabetes care. Patient-physician language barriers may affect medication adherence among Latino individuals. OBJECTIVE: To determine the association of patient race/ethnicity, preferred language, and physician language concordance with patient adherence to newly prescri…

Grounded in flow theory and the person-artefact-task (PAT) model, this study examines the impact of flow on EFL learners' excessive use of translation software and identifies the antecedents of flow. This study also investigates whether students' academic background (English vs. non-English) moderates the relationship…

Previous research on the L1 acquisition of motion event expression suggests that mapping multiple semantic components onto syntactic units is associated with greater difficulties in verb-framed than in satellite-framed languages, because the former require more complex structures (using subordination). This study inves…

Previous studies in our laboratory showed that English-native listeners had greater masking release from the temporal variation in noise than Chinese-native listeners in speech perception tasks. The goal of this study was to examine whether the advantage of temporal dip listening for English-native listeners was also p…

Traditional methods only consider topic information in English vocabulary information extraction, lose the statistical feature information of the keywords themselves, and easily ignore the semantic information of the words. In order to improve the extraction efficiency of English keyword information, based on the CAD m…

In the process of continuous reform and development of education and teaching, some traditional teaching modes are gradually eliminated, whereas new teaching modes are gradually recognized by teachers and students. These modes are widely used in education and teaching due to their overwhelming characteristics. Among th…

This study investigates the effect of a network of general trust on the willingness to communicate in English among Japanese people. Previous studies have shown that general trust positively affects the willingness to communicate in English for Japanese people. However, the network structure of general trust and its ef…

Recently, considerable attention has been given to the effect of the age of acquisition (AoA) on learning a second language (L2); however, the scarcity of L2 AoA ratings has limited advancements in this field. We presented the ratings of L2 AoA in late, unbalanced Chinese-English bilingual speakers and collected the fa…

The present study investigates the patterns of word associations among Arab EFL learners and compares these patterns with those of native speakers of English. The study also examines the influence of increased language exposure and word characteristics on the learners' association patterns. To this end, 45 native speak…

PURPOSE: This study compares goodness and accentedness ratings of speech tokens rated by listeners who are naive to and aware of speakers' native language backgrounds. Listener responses to open-ended questions regarding goodness and accentedness ratings are also examined. METHOD: Twenty-eight monolingual speakers of…

Salience influences grammatical structure during production in a language-dependent manner because different languages afford different options to satisfy preferences. During production, speakers may always try to satisfy all syntactic encoding preferences (e.g., salient entities to be mentioned early, themes to be ass…