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Since the early 1990s, research in public understanding of science has significantly increased and become more systematic and academic. However, most of papers published by the main journals in the field have as origin the English-speaking world of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealan…

Peer review of an english oncological paper needs to focus on the principal evaluation criteria. The total of patients is a crucial element to determine the power of the study. This number must be determined before starting the trial and must be raised at the end before interpreting results. Results and statistical ana…

OBJECTIVE: To examine group differences and continuity in caregiving environments of infants born preterm from Spanish- and English-speaking families. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a prospective cohort study of Spanish- (= 17) and English-speaking (= 23) families of infants born preterm (< 32 weeks gestation). Caregiver-…

The new progress of deep learning and natural language processing technology has strongly promoted the development of English grammar error correction. However, the existing methods mostly rely on large-scale corpus, and often ignore the fine syntactic correlation in paragraphs, which limits the efficiency in complex g…

PURPOSE: Anticipation of stuttering is experienced by nearly all adults who stutter (AWS). The Premonitory Awareness in Stuttering Scale (PAiS) is an existing tool validated in German and Turkish that measures the intensity of stuttering anticipation. The present study aimed to provide initial validation of the PAiS in…

PURPOSE: This study investigated the dimensionality of language in bilingual children using measures of semantics and morphosyntax in English and Spanish. METHOD: Participants included 112 Spanish-English bilingual children ages 4-8 years from a wide range of language abilities and dominance profiles. Using measures o…

PURPOSE: In the current study, we examined the alignment of language choice of bilingual parent-child dyads in play-based interactions. METHOD: Forty-four bilingual Spanish-English parent-child dyads participated in a 10-min naturalistic free-play interaction to determine whether bilingual children and their parents r…

To determine their academic strengths and weaknesses, students compare their own performance across domains (e.g., math vs. English), a process referred to as dimensional comparisons. For example, individuals' higher-scoring English performance may negatively affect their math motivational beliefs (competence self-conc…

Language experience confers a benefit to voice learning, a concept described in the literature as the language familiarity effect (LFE). What experiences are necessary for the LFE to be conferred is less clear. We contribute empirically and theoretically to this debate by examining within and across language voice lear…

BACKGROUND: Misinformation is known to affect norms, attitudes, and intentions to engage with healthy behaviors. Evidence strongly supports that Spanish speakers may be particularly affected by misinformation and its outcomes, yet current insights into the scope and scale of misinformation is primarily ethnocentric, wi…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Linguistic services, including verbal interpretation and written translation, are critical to providing equitable health care for families with non-English language preference (NELP). Despite evidence of provider disuse and misuse of linguistic services and resultant adverse outcomes, few stu…

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) are characterised by impaired language abilities both in comprehension and production. Complex syntax is a specific domain which is often considered challenging for children with DLD. Research regarding complex syntax is mostly concerned with the production patterns o…

BACKGROUND: Informed by Latino Critical Race Theory, the present study examined how intersections between English use/proficiency, Spanish use/proficiency, and heritage group shape the varying experiences of ethnic discrimination reported by US Hispanic adults. METHODS: The study utilized data from 7,037 Hispanic adul…

Purpose The purpose of this study was to construct and validate a recorded word recognition test for monolingual Spanish-speaking children utilizing a picture board and a picture-pointing task. Design The Spanish Pediatric Picture Identification Test was developed and validated in this study. Test construction steps in…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the vocal characteristics of bilingual individuals speaking in their native language as compared with the English language. METHODS: The participants consisted of 30 vocally healthy adults, 14 adult male and 16 adult female bilingual subjects, with ages ranging from…

Two experiments examined underlying cognitive processes that may explain why it is harder to learn to read in English than in more transparent orthographies such as German and Dutch. Participants were English and Dutch readers from Grades 3 and 4. Experiment 1 probed the transition from serial to more parallel processi…

OBJECTIVES: The Douleur Neuropathique 4 (DN4), ID Pain, Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs (LANSS), PainDETECT, and Neuropathic Pain Questionnaire have been recommended as screening questionnaires for neuropathic pain. This systematic review aimed to evaluate the measurement properties (eg, criterion va…

Australia is increasingly becoming a culturally diverse country, with this trend being reflected in nursing education as significant numbers of students enrol from backgrounds where English is a second/other language (ESL). These students will enable the provision of culturally competent care that a culturally diverse…

OBJECTIVES: The English language is generally perceived to be the universal language of science. However, the exclusive reliance on English-language studies may not represent all of the evidence. Excluding languages other than English (LOE) may introduce a language bias and lead to erroneous conclusions. STUDY DESIGN…