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In the United States, there are persistent disparities in mental health services for linguistically and culturally minoritized groups. We examined whether bilinguals reported psychological symptoms differently when assessed across their two languages. Japanese-English bilinguals completed anxiety (STAI) and depression…

Little is known about how to develop frameworks for using AI to support learning in English Literature within higher education. This paper presents research that developed a framework for employing AI in the study of the fourteenth-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Studying Chaucer presents challenges for modern r…

It remains unclear as to how vocabulary contributes to reading comprehension in a second language (L2). This study aims to explore the specific roles of vocabulary in reading comprehension in children learning English as an L2 based on three theoretical perspectives. Namely, whether vocabulary should be considered as a…

INTRODUCTION: University publicity discourse is pivotal to global communication, embodying institutional values and cultural identities. While linguistic research on its embedded attitudinal meaning abounds, cross-lingual (English-Chinese) comparative exploration-especially systematic analysis of attitudinal resources…

Vocational nursing educators are regularly challenged to broaden the global perspective of students who have neither studied abroad nor experienced different cultures and to integrate international health care elements into English as a medium of instruction (EMI) nursing classes to increase student transcultural liter…

Language proficiency is a critically important factor in research on bilingualism, but researchers disagree on its measurement. Validated objective measures exist, but investigators often rely exclusively on subjective measures. We investigated if combining multiple self-report measures improves prediction of objective…

The current study explores whether individual differences in the dimensional adjectives (e.g., big, tall) children, relates to individual differences in two non-verbal spatial abilities, spatial scaling and mental transformations, in bilingual children. The inclusion of English-Spanish bilingual children broadens the w…

This study focuses on the linearization of constituents at the right sentence periphery in German, specifically on non-clausal light-weight constituents (LWCs) in the post-field. Spoken and written productions of German heritage speakers (HSs) with English as their majority language (ML) and of monolingually-raised spe…

Drawing on Wigfield and Eccles's motivational theory, which is acclaimed for explaining individual behavioral intentions, this study investigated the extent to which different forms of motivation (i.e., self-efficacy, task value, and intrinsic and extrinsic motivations) predicted student behavioral feedback engagement…

Speakers of different languages (e.g., English vs. Turkish) show a binary split in how they package and order components of a motion event in speech and co-speech gesture but not in silent gesture. In this study, we focused on Mandarin Chinese, a language that does not follow the binary split in its expression of motio…

BACKGROUND: The use of Android mobile applications aimed at addressing users' psychological health is increasing. However, no review has been conducted on public Android commercial telepsychological applications in Spain. METHOD: A systematic search was carried out in the general applications section of Google Play St…

Through English language teaching (ELT), educator professional development is an interesting and significant subject due to the fact it is in the interest of the educators' career to make sure that its participants perform consistently with the highest degrees of agreed criteria. Correspondingly, educators mostly state…

As a revolutionary education model, the flipped classroom teaching model has unique advantages over the traditional education model. How to change the teaching method of flipped classroom into a teaching method suitable for college English courses is a problem. The goal of this research is to investigate how to use dat…

The aim of this study was to identify the original design of the Limberg flap.Publications by the original author, Limberg, and his original designs of the so-called "Limberg flap" were searched in PubMed. These included his original monograph written in Russian (Mathematical Principles of Local Plastic Procedures on t…

This study investigated crosslinguistic phonological awareness and phonological recoding skills in Chinese reading acquisition among early Chinese adolescent students. 76 Chinese children participated in this study and finished a series of reading measurements over 1 year (from Grade 5 to Grade 6). In Grade 5, they wer…

This paper reports on a mixed-methods study that utilized a convergent parallel design to examine Chinese graduate students' knowledge of and stance on plagiarism in English academic writing. A sample of 183 master's students from three broad disciplinary groupings at a major university in northeastern China completed…

Adults' linguistic background influences their sequential statistical learning of an artificial language characterized by conflicting forward-going and backward-going transitional probabilities. English-speaking adults favor backward-going transitional probabilities, consistent with the head-initial structure of Englis…

This paper investigates the historical (1850s-2000s) evolution of semantics in the English language using contemporaneous, decade-specific computational estimates of word concreteness. Study 1 describes the computational method of generating time-locked estimates of concreteness based on the Corpus of Historic American…