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Second language (L2) learners often struggle to process prosodic boundaries, which are essential for speech comprehension. This study investigated the nature of these difficulties and how first language (L1) cue-weighting strategies transfer to L2 processing among Chinese (Mandarin)-English learners. The rising pitch t…

BackgroundPrior research has examined the impact of limited English proficiency (LEP) in the hospital setting at the end of life in select regions of the United States.ObjectiveExamine whether LEP is associated with bereaved family ratings of quality of care in a national survey.DesignSecondary data analysis of the Nat…

This longitudinal study examines the developmental relationships between language switching ability and executive function components in English learners across multiple proficiency levels. Drawing on bilingual cognitive control theory, we investigated how working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility i…

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT and Grammarly has changed the way students practice, interact with, and develop English skills, especially for English majors in Vietnam. These tools, with the capacity of providing instant feedback, suggesting alternative wording, and even sim…

The recent growth of telehealth may be impacting access to care for patients, including those with limited English proficiency (LEP). Using a secret-shopper design, simulated patients contacted 386 safety-net clinics in California in both Spanish and English from February-March 2023. Callers stated that they were new p…

Bibliometric and scientific knowledge graph methods were used to analyze the research status and hot spots of acupuncture-moxibustion in treatment of myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) and explore its development trend. The articles of both Chinese and English versions relevant to MPS treated by acupuncture-moxibustion wer…

Using U.S. state-level data, we report unadjusted and adjusted odds ratio of special education (SPED) trends in Tennessee from 2009 to 2019 for students in Grades 3 to 8 by three language groups: native English speakers (NES), English-proficient bilinguals (EPB), and Current English learners (Current EL). We report tre…

In this study, the Web of Science and China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI) were searched comprehensively for the literature about the research on Polygalae Radix. After manual screening, 1 207 Chinese articles and 263 English articles were included in this study. Excel was used to draw the line chart of the an…

Individuals with limited English proficiency face more challenges accessing applied behavior analysis (ABA) than their English-speaking counterparts. Many federal and state laws have been enacted to ensure the civil rights of protected classes, and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, 2010) builds on those law…

Bilingualism research has established language non-selective lexical access in comprehension. However, the evidence for such an effect in production remains sparse and its neural time-course has not yet been investigated. We demonstrate that German-English bilinguals performing a simple picture-naming task exclusively…

Multiple congenital or developmental anomalies associated with the central nervous system have been reported in English Bulldogs. The purpose of this retrospective study was to identify and describe the prevalence and MRI characteristics of these anomalies and their association with presence and degree of cerebral vent…

Globalization and the development of information technology have driven a surge in English text data, and there is an urgent need for efficient classification. To improve the generalization ability of English text classification in small-sample and cross-domain scenarios and to achieve lightweight models, this study co…

INTRODUCTION: The extant experimental study measured the effect of a reading training on developing word recognition skills in English (the foreign language, FL) and Arabic (the first language, L1). METHODS: Forty-five participants were selectively allocated to two groups: experimental (n = 25) and control (n = 20). T…

Concreteness is a fundamental dimension of word semantic representation that has attracted more and more interest to become one of the most studied variables in the psycholinguistic and cognitive neuroscience literature in the last decade. Concreteness effects have been found at both the brain and the behavioral levels…

The study explored the impacts of patterns of language use (PLU) and socio-economic status (SES) on Casper, a constructed-response situational judgment test (SJT). 10,266 applicants from two U.S. medical schools were grouped into self-reported balanced bilinguals, unbalanced bilinguals, English monolinguals, and Englis…

Although academic research on English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) emotion has recently increased, there is a paucity of studies related to boredom in the Saudi context. To address this issue, the present study aimed to identify the causes of students' boredom in English classes in the Saudi context and the fluctuations…

The current study's aim was to investigate how Latino toddlers' bilingual language development relates to their caregivers' bilingual language use (i.e., input) and cultural orientation (to the US and their heritage country). Video recordings of caregiver-child interactions, collected when toddlers were approximately 1…