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The Artificial Intelligence Writing Evaluation system is widely used in China College English writing. It provides for both teachers and the English learners services of automated composition evaluation on the net in order that teacher's working load can be reduced and they can learn directly about the students' Englis…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between English vowel identification and English vowel formant discrimination for native Mandarin Chinese- and native English-speaking listeners. The identification of 12 English vowels was measured with the duration cue preserved or removed. The thresholds of v…

BACKGROUND: Aviation English, a specialised language field for areas like aircraft maintenance, involves more complex pedagogy than general English, as it addresses specific learner needs within an aviation context. Teachers in this field must understand aviation-specific content and students' linguistic needs to desig…

For several decades, extensive research has been conducted on motivation in language learning. However, how motivation impacts learning behaviours with the moderation of factors related to emotions, attitude, environment, and teachers has not been reported. This study aims to examine the moderating effects of these fou…

This study aimed to investigate the impact of demographic and contextual variables on boredom in English and mathematics, and to test structural models of boredom, learner burnout, learner engagement, and life satisfaction. Using a cross-sectional survey design and employing a convenience sampling technique, 544 second…

This study aims to examine and analyze a research model comprising three latent variables (academic expectation stress, adaptive coping, and academic resilience) to gain insights into the perceived English proficiency of EFL (English as a foreign language) learners. These variables have been overlooked in previous lite…

This study investigated how English and Japanese speakers syllabify two-syllable English words and nonwords with single intervocalic consonants. In oral tasks, participants inserted a pause between two parts of English words and nonwords. In written tasks, they selected their preferred syllabification of English words…

There is a paucity of understanding about how language influences pain communication and outcomes for families who speak languages other than English in the United States. This is of great importance because 21.6% (68 million) of the population speak a language other than English, with 8% (25 million) of the population…

This article reports the development and validation of an instrument, the Technology-Based Self-Regulated English Learning Strategies Scale (TSELSS), in terms of its multifaceted structure of self-directed use of technology in English learning among Chinese university EFL students. TSELSS was developed through a three-…

INTRODUCTION: This paper examines the productive vocabulary skills of five groups of English-Hebrew bilinguals in Israel and the United States. The juxtaposition of these five groups allows us to simultaneously compare performance across dominance profiles, acquisition contexts (L2 learned in school, HL maintained at h…

English teaching is an important part of basic teaching in our country, which has been deeply concerned by all aspects. Its teaching quality not only is related to the purpose of English teaching, but also has a far-reaching impact on students' English learning. Therefore, the construction of English teaching quality e…

The current college English online teaching mode is mainly based on the traditional online MOOC teaching, which has some problems such as poor interaction. Under the mixed background, this paper studies the online college English teaching model based on the Gaussian mutation genetic algorithm and neural network algorit…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this research forum article is to provide an overview of typical and atypical development of English as a second language (L2) and to present strategies for clinical assessment with English language learners (ELLs). METHOD: A review of studies examining the lexical, morphological, narrative, an…

This study examined the production of English /b/ and the perception of short-lag English /b d g/ tokens by four groups of bilinguals who differed according to their age of arrival (AOA) in Canada from Italy and amount of self-reported native language (L1) use. A clear difference emerged between early bilinguals (mean…

Successful researchers in the biological sciences communicate their work to a global audience and must do so in English to be widely recognized and cited. This applies equally to scientific talks, posters, and published articles; thus, scientific English must be prioritized in nonnative English-speaking (NNES) academic…

Monolingual English-speaking preschool children tend to process number gestures as unanalyzed wholes rather than use the one-to-one (finger-to-quantity) correspondence. By school age, however, children can use the one-to-one correspondence. The purpose of the present studies was to test whether children learn one-to-on…

OBJECTIVE: This study sought to determine if a monolingual English listener could rate nasality in English and in Spanish with the same proficiency as a bilingual English-Spanish listener, and to compare nasalance scores with nasality ratings. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Speakers for this study were 26 bilingual English-Spa…

AIM: To demonstrate the self-perceived communication competence and communication apprehension of nursing students before and after taking English for Nursing courses. BACKGROUND: Despite the growing demand for English as a foreign language courses for nursing students in Indonesia, relatively little research has been…

The paper discusses some problems existing in the current Chinese-English dictionaries of TCM nouns, points out their negative effects, hoping that people will attach great importance to the problems. Meanwhile the author puts forth the urgency of compiling high quality Chinese-English TCM dictionaries, and the role of…

The study tested whether cognitive retroactive transfer (CRT) of language skills from English to Hebrew takes place; specifically, whether an improvement in linguistic and meta-linguistic skills in English as a foreign language (FL) would lead to an improvement in these skills in Hebrew as the first language (L1). The…