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The purpose of this study was to examine the development of English reading achievement among English Language Learners (ELLs) and to determine whether the time that an ELL's family was in the United States and the type of native language spoken affected their reading development. Participants were 300 third-grade ELLs…

This study explored preschooler feeding practices and beliefs among Spanish- and English-speaking WIC participants in Texas. The Preschooler Feeding Questionnaire examined 9 dimensions of the parent-child feeding interaction among 235 caregivers. Results from ANOVA and post hoc analyses demonstrated significant differe…

This study investigated changes in vowel production and perception among university students from the north of England, as individuals adapt their accent from regional to educated norms. Subjects were tested in their production and perception at regular intervals over a period of 2 years: before beginning university, 3…

This study examined two- (n = 10) and three-year-old (n = 16) French-English bilingual children's repairs of breakdowns in communication that occurred when they did not use the same language as their interlocutor (Language breakdowns) and for other reasons (e.g. inaudible utterance). The children played with an experim…

The aim of this study was to produce a word list suitable for children aged between 2 and 6 years with English as a second language (E2L) to be used in the format of a toy test to evaluate hearing status. Two lists of English words were compiled using words previously shown to be among the early English words learned b…

This paper presents a longitudinal analysis of input-output effects in the production of metaphoric expressions by children aged two to five. The group case-study design adopted in this project involved longitudinally sampled corpora of naturalistic conversations between six English- and five Polish-speaking children a…

This study aimed to validate the Simple View of Reading (SVR) in L2 English readers with alphabetic and morphosyllabic L1 writing system backgrounds. Forty-five L2 English learners enrolled in American university bridge programs completed a set of tasks that measured real word decoding efficiency, pseudoword decoding e…

The study aims to build a model that predicts the behavior of the use of blended learning by English teachers of basic education in China in the environment of repeated lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the relationships between ICT self-efficacy, organizational support for blended learning, attitudes…

This study investigates whether the learning of prosodic cues to word boundaries in speech segmentation is more difficult if the native and second/foreign languages (L1 and L2) have similar (though non-identical) prosodies than if they have markedly different prosodies (Prosodic-Learning Interference Hypothesis). It do…

Recent studies of eye movements in world-situated language comprehension have demonstrated that rapid processing of morphosyntactic information - e.g., grammatical gender and number marking - can produce anticipatory eye movements to referents in the visual scene. We investigated how type of morphosyntactic information…

First Nations children may speak a dialect of English that has different grammatical rules from Standard Australian English (school language). Limited studies have investigated Aboriginal English (home language) dialect in First Nations children and its impact on differential diagnosis of language disorder. This study…

Despite the growing body of research on the factors of resilience in diverse fields, there is still a dearth of particular attention on foreign language learning resilience. To fill the gap, this study seeks to develop the foreign language learning resilience scale () to measure its psychometric scale reliability and v…

BACKGROUND: Few studies have focused on research practice in Japanese university general medicine (GM) departments. METHODS: This is a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study to clarify the research achievement and associated factors of Japanese university GM department. Univariate analysis was performed to compare…

BACKGROUND: Limited English proficient (LEP) patients receive fewer recommended preventive screenings than English-speaking patients. Studies have explored patients' perceptions of the factors that contribute to this disparity, but little research has focused on physicians' perceptions. OBJECTIVE: To describe physicia…

In recent years, as dental care becomes more internationalized, it is becoming increasingly important for dental students and dentists to learn English, especially dental terminology. However, there are still limited learning materials and environments specialized in such specialized vocabulary, and the developmen…

This article reports on a study that examined the impact of a flipped English as a Foreign Language (EFL) course on college students' second language (L2) development. Specifically, an 18-week quasi-experiment was administered in a general English course at a Chinese university, with a total of 612 first-year students…