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An ongoing challenge for teachers of deaf students is to give these students a natural environment for writing English. Electronic Networks for Interaction (ENFI) provides a natural approach to teach writing skills to these students, making English more accessible. ENFI can be used in a variety of classroom activities…

The English bulldog is notoriously predisposed to a number of disease conditions, including congenital defects, likely due to extreme genetic selection which has reduced genetic variability within this breed. The present report describes, for the first time, the main clinical and pathological features of congenital lun…

This paper reports on a speech production experiment that explores whether the accentual phrase (AP) represents an abstract level of prosodic phrasing in Singapore English. Specifically, it tests whether the right edge of the AP is associated with phrase-final lengthening, the degree of which can be distinguished from…

Does native knowledge introduce a perceptual bias against allophones that mismatch their context? In German, [x] only occurs after back vowels, while [ç] occurs elsewhere. German and English listeners heard "allophonic" ([ç-x]) and "non-allophonic" ([ç-f], [x-f]) continua after front and back vowels. Vow…

Speakers of English and Tamil differ widely in which relational roles they overtly express with a verb. This study provides new information about how speakers of these languages differ in their descriptions of the same scenes and how explicit mention of roles and other scene elements vary with the properties of the sce…

Intercultural adjustment of Japanese high school students who sojourned in the United States for one year is the focus of the study. Building relationships with host nationals using limited English competency is the challenge that seems basic to successful adjustment to life in the USA. A path model was constructed in…

Three studies were conducted in Hong Kong to examine the development of phonological awareness of Chinese children from the ages of 3 to 8. Like English-speaking children, Chinese children were found to be able to detect relatively large sound segments (e.g., partial homophones) at the beginning and gradually progress…

The effects of the scan for the first element in reading (leftmost in English, rightmost in Hebrew) on the ability of subjects to ignore irrelevant stimuli in one visual field more than in the other were investigated. The hypothesis tested was that English readers would have a harder time ignoring irrelevant stimuli in…

This article provides some suggestions for clinicians to assist them in working effectively with students and families who do not speak English or for whom English is a second language. Included is a brief review of the diversity of languages and cultures represented by families living in the United States. There are d…

Concern is often expressed about the English language proficiency (ELP) of students engaged in professional training. This report assesses the ELP of the 1990 and 1991 intakes into medicine at the University of Sydney. A quick screening test and individual in-depth tests were used in a two-stage design. Admission to th…

The articulation of 41 phonemes in the speech of 70 Xhosa-speaking children ages 2½-6 years (10 children in each group of seven age levels 6 months apart) was studied with respect to order of acquisition, types of errors, types of substitutions, ages of phoneme acquisition, and sex variables. These variables were…

We report results of HLA-A, B, C, and DR typing in groups of white Caucasians of English descent and black West Indians of African descent with sarcoidosis. In the English patients we found a significantly increased frequency of Cw7, which was not found in the West Indian patients. Our results also suggest that DR3 and…

INTRODUCTION: In the current educational context, student engagement serves as a key indicator of both teaching quality and overall educational effectiveness in senior high school education. METHODS: This study employed structural equation modeling to analyze the self-report questionnaire data from 314 Chinese senior…