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Culturally responsive teaching (CRT) has been found to promote student engagement and enhance learning in the classroom. As an effective pedagogy, the past decade has witnessed a soaring interest in exploring teachers' competence, self-efficacy, and influencing factors in implementing CRT across school subjects. Howeve…

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an unprecedented surge in Twitter activity, providing a rich source of public opinions and emotions. This study proposes a fusion model combining a bidirectional GRU (BiGRU) and a DistilBERT transformer, with their learned features concatenated and fed into an XGBoost meta-classifier for…

Arthur Waley's 1942 abridged translation, Monkey: Journey to the West, remains one of the most influential and widely debated English renderings of this Chinese classic. Despite its extensive global cultural impact, the contemporary online reception has remained largely unexplored. This study applies an integrated comp…

The five experiments presented here examine the ability of listeners to detect a foreign accent. Computer editing techniques were used to isolate progressively shorter excerpts of the English spoken by native speakers of American English and French. Native English-speaking listeners judged the speech samples in one- an…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the extent of communication problems that arose from patients whose primary language was non-English presenting to an inner city accident and emergency (A&E) department. METHODS: A prospective survey over seven consecutive days during September 1995. All adult patients other than those directly…

BACKGROUND: According to the Affordable Care Act of 2010, any health program that receives federal funding must take reasonable steps to provide oral or written language assistance to individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP). LOCAL PROBLEM: After conducting a needs assessment, a disconnect between nursing kn…

Research has indicated that second-language learners have difficulty producing geminates accurately. Previous studies have also shown an effect of orthography on second-language speech production. We tested whether the existence of a contrast in the first language phonology for length aids the second-language productio…

Education evolves and progresses globally in a technology-driven world, highlighting the integration of VUCA elements of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in lessons. Learners are molded to equip themselves with the world and real-life knowledge in their readiness to adapt to the VUCA world. Global edu…

The current research tracked kindergarteners into Grade 4 to investigate the longitudinal relations between reading and verbal working memory (VWM). The samples for investigation included the overall weighted sample, English monolingual (EL1) learners, language minority learners with high English proficiency (HP-LM), a…

The ability to conceive time is a corner stone of human cognition. It is unknown, however, whether time conceptualisation differs depending on language of operation in bilinguals. Whilst both Chinese and English cultures associate the future with the front space, some temporal expressions of Chinese involve a configura…

BACKGROUND: Limited English proficient (LEP) patients receive fewer recommended preventive screenings than English-speaking patients. Studies have explored patients' perceptions of the factors that contribute to this disparity, but little research has focused on physicians' perceptions. OBJECTIVE: To describe physicia…

BACKGROUND: Symptom checklists used in clinical research of gastroparesis have not been evaluated for reliability or validity. The Gastroparesis Cardinal Symptom Index (GCSI) is a reliable, validated measure whereby patients score three groups of symptoms: nausea/vomiting, postprandial fullness/early satiety and bloati…

This study tested the issue of whether extended length of residence (LOR) in adulthood can provide sufficient input to overcome age effects. The study replicates Flege, Takagi, and Mann (1995), which found that 10 out of 12 Japanese learners of English with extensive residence (12 years or more) produced liquids as acc…

Acquiring literacy in English as a foreign language (EFL) is important for language development. However, many students enter middle school without adequate EFL literacy skills. This may indicate a gap between EFL literacy instruction theory and the classroom practice that is occurring in elementary school classrooms.…

To meet the growing demands for competency-based and personalized instruction in high school English reading, this study investigates a quantitative approach to modeling learning pathways and progressions. Traditional assessments often fail to capture students' fine-grained cognitive differences and provide limited gui…

Velum behavior in speech production, particularly with nasal sounds, has been a matter of significant interest to researchers revealing many different factors that affect velum movement during speech events. Few studies, however, have explored velum movement patterns during inter-speech pauses compared to speech segmen…

Automated evaluation of educational quality can be an effective measure of the efficiency of teaching methods, enabling the determination of the best teaching approach based on the educational environment conditions. Machine learning techniques have been used in various research studies as tools for automated evaluatio…

About one-fifth of adults and children over the age of 5 living in the United States report speaking a language other than English (LOE) at home, with a significant portion of this population also self-reporting limited English proficiency. Pediatric emergency medicine providers are seeing increasing numbers of patient…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help teachers plan lessons more efficiently, but it also raises concerns about increased cognitive load, loss of autonomy, and uniform lesson plans. This study aims to investigate drivers of English teacher perceived usefulness (PU), needs satisfaction (NS), and behavioral intention (BI…