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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…

PURPOSE: The current study focuses on describing the English language narrative skills of children who have been exposed to the Filipino language. METHOD: Eight children between the ages of 6;0 (years;months) and 7;7 who spoke primarily English but who were exposed to the Filipino language at home participated. Each c…

Accented speech contains talker-indexical cues that listeners can use to infer social group membership, yet it remains unclear how the auditory system categorizes accent variability and how this process depends on language experience.The current study used EEG and the MMN oddball paradigm to test pre-attentive neural s…

Australian Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers must acquire linguistic structures that occur only in the community language (e.g., English inflectional grammar). This study investigated how they acquire such structures and any relationship between linguistic knowledge and language experience on their performance. T…

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Patients with limited English proficiency may face barriers to acute ischemic stroke (AIS) care. This study investigates whether medical interpreter requirement for AIS patients affects access to endovascular therapy (EVT) or outcomes. METHODS: Retrospective review of an AIS database at a singl…

This study examined cognitive-style differences in reading strategies on a lexical-decision task. Subjects made word/nonword judgments for letter sequences consisting of either real words, English-sounding nonwords, or non-English-sounding nonwords. In line with previous findings, responses were significantly slower to…

This paper thoroughly examines the time distribution, author collaboration, research institutions, research hotspots, theme clustering, and research changes and trends based on 345 CNKI literatures in the field of blended learning for Business English majors in China from 2012 to 2022. It reveals that: Research on blen…

With the deepening of cultural integration, people's demand for English learning is also increasing rapidly. However, traditional teaching methods have certain limitations, and teaching conditions are limited by the slow development of information technology, oral English courses have been shelved and stopped for a lon…

Relevant research shows teachers' "psychological power" plays a more essential role in promoting their professional development compared with the powers provided by various external factors, and it is therefore held that exploring college English teachers' individual psychological power is of great significance. To thi…

The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought drastic changes to English teaching as it has shifted from the offline mode before the pandemic to the online mode during the pandemic. However, in the post-pandemic era, there are still many problems in the effective implementation of the process of English teaching, leading to the…

BACKGROUND: Financial toxicity (FT) reflects multi-dimensional personal economic hardships borne by cancer patients. It is unknown whether measures of FT-to date derived largely from English-speakers-adequately capture economic experiences and financial hardships of medically underserved low English proficiency US Hisp…

An ‘English of science communications' should focus on the quality of the message, rather than ‘readability' or the specific word choices of the author.

The corpus is applied to compare and analyze three elements of the third personal pronoun endophora in English abstracts of Chinese and foreign theses. It is discovered that there is no significant difference in the total frequency of third personal pronoun endophora used by Chinese and foreign masters, but there is a…

The employment situation and advantages of interdisciplinary talents of English and acupuncture-moxibustion andat home and abroad are analyzed. The employment rate and further education rate of interdisciplinary talents of English and acupunctue-moxibustion andare higher than those of the normal undergraduates majoring…

This study investigates the question of whether language background affects the perception of lexical stress in English. Thirty native English speakers and 30 native Chinese learners of English participated in a stressed-syllable identification task and a discrimination task involving three types of stimuli (real words…

The speech-to-song illusion is a phenomenon in which the continuous repetition of a spoken utterance induces the listeners to perceive it as more song-like. Thus far, this perceptual transformation has been observed in mostly European languages, such as English; however, it is unclear whether the illusion is experience…

PURPOSE: As society grows in cultural diversity, an increasing proportion of patients are expected to be from non-English speaking backgrounds. This study sought to compare the clinical outcomes between non-English speakers and English speakers treated by radiation therapy for head and neck cancer. METHODS AND MATERIA…

BACKGROUND: Debates have arisen in various non-English speaking countries over the chosen language of instruction in medical education, whether it has to be the English language or the mother tongue. English-based education supporters argue that English is the leading international language of medicine and research, an…