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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…

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…

Children's vocabulary growth is linked to the quantity and quality of their language input. Thus, multilingual toddlers often have smaller vocabularies in each of their languages than monolinguals have in their one language. Could exposure to multiple accents also affect vocabulary growth? To date, no well-powered stud…

INTRODUCTION: Twitter (X) is widely used to reflect individual perspectives. We wished to study social insight regarding dementia using this digital platform. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study retrieving tweets containing "dementia" or "#dementia" and their Thai equivalents. English tweets were randomly se…

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…

This retrospective chart review compared the length of stay (LOS) of families with limited English proficiency (LEP) versus English-speaking families seen in 3 pediatric urgent care centers (PUCCs). Visits were included for patients aged 2 months to 17 years seen between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2016, with 1 o…

Learning to read in a second language (L2) poses unique challenges for emergent bilingual (EB) children. This study examines whether Spanish-English EB children's vocabulary skills in Spanish and English mediate the relationship between their language input-output and English (L2) reading skills. The sample included 33…

An epidemiological survey of 414 English and 980 Dutch male cotton workers was undertaken to determine the prevalence of byssinosis and respiratory symptoms, and to compare the ventilatory capacities in the two populations, with particular reference to the influence of air pollution. The English workers were employed i…

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…

Segmental and suprasegmental phonological awareness (PA) are closely related to word reading skills in native speakers learning to read an alphabetic script as used in English. However, their roles in English word and pseudoword reading among native Chinese (NC) speakers, and how English proficiency might affect these…

BACKGROUND: Excellent research in all fields, including spine surgery, exists in many different regions and languages. This study seeks to determine the relative number of spine related peer-reviewed publications throughout the world based on language. METHODS: Peer-reviewed publications from the eleven most prolific…

OBJECTIVE: To describe national trends in cochlear implantation for non-English-speaking cochlear implant (CI) users. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: US institutions participating in the Epic Cosmos database. PATIENTS: Cochlear implantees between 2015 and 2023. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Implantation…

The role of language in memory for arithmetic facts remains controversial. Here, we examined transfer of memory training for evidence that bilinguals may acquire language-specific memory stores for everyday arithmetic facts. Chinese-English bilingual adults (n = 32) were trained on different subsets of simple addition…

OBJECTIVE: To examine differences in the characteristics of adverse events between English speaking patients and patients with limited English proficiency in US hospitals. SETTING: Six Joint Commission accredited hospitals in the USA. METHOD: Adverse event data on English speaking patients and patients with limited E…

When someone who is learning a second language (L2) produces a sound in the L2 using a familiar, native-language (L1) category, the L2 sound is said to have been "identified with" an L1 sound. Although interlingual identification exerts a powerful influence on L2 pronunciation, it is still poorly understood. Orthograph…

Diet records from 2402 middle-aged men and women in three English towns have been used to derive food lists which indicate the percentage contribution each food, or group of foods, makes to the intake of specific nutrients. Comparison of these food lists with those based on the American diet show differences in sources…

We suggest three reasons why Japanese clinicians should learn to speak English: international academic interaction, gaining experience abroad, and having another skill in the rapidly changing world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only reading and writing English but also speaking the language is inevitable for Japane…