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BACKGROUND: Disparities in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination persist among foreign-born adults in the U.S., who are up to 30% less likely than their U.S.-born counterparts to have ever received the vaccine. While HPV vaccination primarily targets adolescents, the recent expansion of eligibility to adults provides…

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for research about communicating with populations who have limited English proficiency in the United States during infectious disease outbreaks. These populations have experienced significantly worse health outcomes during emergencies, including the COVID-19 pandemic, and…

In a recent paper in this journal, Boyko and colleagues (2007) identified differences in attendance and referee bias as factors influencing home advantage at soccer matches in the English Premiership. A replication of their study using more recent data found no evidence to sustain either of their claims.

Unsystematic observations indicated that small children who could reverse the order of certain two-unit utterances had difficulty reversing utterances that formed common English sequences. Findings of this study indicate that the following factors are sources of difficulty in reversing pairs: (i) inability to separate…

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…

The present paper examines how English native speakers produce scopally ambiguous sentences and how they make use of gestures and prosody for disambiguation. As a case in point, the participants in the present study produced the English negative quantifiers. They appear in two different positions as (1) The election of…

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…

Older migrants face special difficulties in the access and use of long-term care services and supports (LTSS). Our study was designed to examine how older persons with limited English proficiency (LEP) in two groups of migrants (Spanish or Chinese speaking) interact with the LTSS system. Focus groups were used to elici…

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…

A growing body of recent research suggests that verbal categories, particularly labels, impact categorization and perception. These findings are commonly interpreted as demonstrating the involvement of language on cognition; however, whether these assumptions hold true for grammatical structures has yet to be investiga…

Drawing on the argument that students' different learning behaviors, including their perceptions of and engagement with feedback, could have roots in learners' fundamental motivational characteristics, this study examines how different second language learning motivational variables may predict university EFL (English…

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…