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OBJECTIVE: To cross-culturally adapt a brief self-assessment questionnaire to measure outcome among English- or Spanish-speaking patients with arthritis. METHODS: A questionnaire containing the following items was translated to Spanish: the 8 activities of daily living (ADL) question of the Modified Health Assessment…

PURPOSE: This study examined the word and nonword reading abilities of Maltese participants with Down syndrome and explored how cognitive-linguistic skills and orthographic depth influence decoding performance. We hypothesised that word reading would exceed nonword reading in participants with Down syndrome, with a lar…

Early language development has rarely been studied in hearing children with deaf parents who are exposed to both a spoken and a signed language (bimodal bilinguals). This study presents longitudinal data of early communication and vocabulary development in a group of 31 hearing infants exposed to British Sign Language…

INTRODUCTION: Taiwan's cultural diversity has been enriched by the growing number of foreign residents and medical tourism policies. Research has demonstrated that health care professionals' English and cultural knowledge are insufficient. We explored linguistic and cultural needs related to quality health care in Taiw…

In language classes, speaking skills are often taken for granted, and not enough attention is paid to developing these skills in a targeted way. In our study, the speaking skills of third-grade students (N = 46) are developed in integrated Lithuanian and English lessons through the analysis of visual material. Visual m…

This paper introduces the ArL2Eng dataset, a speech corpus of L2 English produced by native speakers of Arabic, and highlights its potential in supporting research into automated language assessment. ArL2Eng comprises audio sequences from speakers of various Arabic backgrounds uttering English sentences. It is appropri…

Diverse evidence supports the theory that bilingual language users have language-invariant representations of concepts and grammatical forms such as argument structure. Here we extend that work to test the representation of morphosyntactic features and lexical concepts in typologically different languages. Specifically…

The study investigated the evocation of mental imagery and emotional responses when English-Chinese bilinguals read classic Chinese poems and their English translations to examine (1) the target readers' formation of non-verbal text representations of Chinese poetry and (2) whether different translations affect the tar…

Language mixing is common in bilingual children's learning environments. Here, we investigated effects of language mixing on children's learning of new words. We tested two groups of 3-year-old bilinguals: French-English (Experiment 1) and Spanish-English (Experiment 2). Children were taught two novel words, one in sin…

Teachers involved in English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching play a significant role in the process of moving toward educational equity. Teacher cognition is very influential in shaping teacher practice and thus affects students' academic performance. However, although the role of EFL teachers as equity agents has…

Parents of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) express concern about raising their children bilingually, and often hear advice from professionals against the use of bilingualism. The current study examined the relation between bilingualism and the language and social communication skills of toddlers…

Developmental education (DE) reform took place among the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions in 2014. In this study, we examine how cohort-based passing rates in college-level English and math courses changed at different colleges for pre- and post-policy period and explore what institutional characteristics w…

Little is known regarding the extent to which aspects of the home language and literacy environment (HLE) promote growth in language skills among dual language learners (DLLs). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate which aspects of the HLE significantly predict growth in English and Spanish vocabulary am…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the landscape of digital resources available for grief and bereavement, and to explore cultural variations through the analysis of patterns in three languages with a multinational repartition (English, French and Spanish). METHODS: For each language, websites were collected through a systematize…

English (Persian) walnut (Juglans regia) trees affected by root and crown rot were surveyed in five regions of central Chile between 2015 and 2017. In each region, nine orchards, ranging from 1 to 21 years old, were randomly selected and inspected for incidence and severity of tree decline associated with crown and roo…

We examined how attention modulates the neural encoding of continuous speech under different types of interference. In an EEG experiment, participants attended to a narrative in English while ignoring a competing stream in the other ear. Four different types of interference were presented to the unattended ear: a diffe…