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The stream of works in the English-language literature relating life stressful events and mental disorders is fifteen years old. In spite of differences in methodology and conceptualization, a review of works published in French and in English allows to draw the conclusion that there is a significant link between these…

To construct and validate an intelligent evaluation model for online English writing that integrates language proficiency, cognitive strategies, and technology interaction. A three-level indicator system was developed using the Delphi method. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was employed to derive expert weights, while…

Numerous studies have demonstrated that second language (L2) comprehension is often accompanied by activations in the first language (L1). Using both behavioral measurement and event-related potential (ERP), this study conducted two experiments to investigate whether a direct activation pathway exists from L2 lexical r…

INTRODUCTION: Language barriers challenge patient- and family-centered care. Literature guiding pediatric nurses caring for patients and families with limited English proficiency in the inpatient setting is nonexistent. The purposes of this phenomenological study were to understand pediatric nurses' experiences in cari…

The purpose of this study was to explore interactions between limited English proficiency (LEP) status, as a function of risk status (low math performance at the start of the school year), on computation and word-problem solving performance. Among 260 1st-grade students, classified as at-risk (AR) or not at-risk (NAR)…

Network science has been applied to study the structure of the mental lexicon, the part of long-term memory where all the words a person knows are stored. Here the tools of network science are used to study the organization ofword-forms in the mental lexicon and how that might influence visual word recognition. An orth…

Most dialects of North American English exhibit /æ/-raising in some phonological contexts. Both the conditioning environments and the temporal dynamics of the raising vary from region to region. To explore the articulatory basis of /æ/-raising across North American English dialects, acoustic and articulatory…

The present study aimed to investigate second language (L2) word-level and sentence-level automatic processing among English as a foreign language students through a comparative analysis of students with different proficiency levels. As a multidimensional and dynamic construct, automaticity is conceptualized as process…

Throughout reading development, a gradual shift is seen in the processes underlying word identification from serial decoding toward parallel processing or sight word reading. It has been argued that this shift can be detected in the correlations between serial and discrete naming of alphanumeric symbols (digits and let…

OBJECTIVE: This work tries to measure the international radiance of the Tunisian medical research indexed in Medline's database. METHODS: It concerns a descriptive bibliometric study of the whole of the Tunisian medical articles indexed in "Medline" between 2000 and 2003 and interpreted according to a request made in…