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BACKGROUND: Hispanic people with Medicare report worse patient experiences than non-Hispanic White counterparts. However, little research examines how these disparities may vary by language preference (English/Spanish). OBJECTIVES: Using Medicare Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey d…

OBJECTIVES: To present the prevalence and distribution of heart disease as well as echocardiographic findings in English Bull Terriers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: One hundred and one English Bull Terriers were retrospectively included to evaluate the prevalence and distribution of heart disease. Secondly, a retrospective…

PURPOSE: This project evaluates whether diverse linguistic experience influences second language (L2)-accented English sentence recognition in Spanish-English bilingual and English monolingual school-age children and adults. METHOD: Four groups of participants completed the study: 22 Spanish-English bilingual school-a…

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to examine the potential clinical use of English-only measures of tense/agreement to identify Spanish-English bilingual children with developmental language disorders (DLDs). METHOD: Participants included 129 Spanish-English bilingual children aged 4-7 years; 55 children were classif…

The development of educational information processes and information technology has made it possible to build a remote learning environment for English education. The application of fifth-generation communication (5G) has carried out revolutions in education for both teachers and students. In this study, an optimizatio…

Here we tested the hypothesis that in Chinese-English bilinguals, music reading experience may modulate eye movement planning in reading English but not Chinese sentences due to the similarity in perceptual demands on processing sequential symbol strings separated by spaces between music notation and English sentence r…

Letter Cancellation Tasks (LCTs) are paper-pencil based psychomotor tasks that are commonly used to assess cognitive functions of healthy volunteers and patients. The performance on LCTs can be affected by the proficiency in the language used for the tasks. This is of importance in a country like India where most of th…

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the intelligibility of English consonants and vowels produced by Chinese-native (CN), and Korean-native (KN) students enrolled in American universities. METHOD 16 English-native (EN), 32 CN, and 32 KN speakers participated in this study. The intelligibility of 16 America…

Event Related Potentials (ERPs) were recorded from Spanish-English bilinguals (N=10) to test pre-attentive speech discrimination in two language contexts. ERPs were recorded while participants silently read magazines in English or Spanish. Two speech contrast conditions were recorded in each language context. In the ph…

OBJECTIVES: The present study objectively examined the possible difference in vocal characteristics associated with English and Cantonese produced by proficient Cantonese-English bilingual speakers. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Forty native speakers of Cantonese (20 males and 20 females) who were proficient in Cantonese and…

In order to test the hypothesis that monolinguals differ from bilinguals in their pattern of language lateralisation and to examine the relative merits of language-acquisitional versus language-specific factors, two experiments involving divided screen presentation of two languages were conducted using Welsh/English sp…

Using fMRI, we compared the patterns of fusiform activity produced by viewing English and Chinese for readers who were either English speakers learning Chinese or Chinese-English bilinguals. The pattern of fusiform activity depended on both the writing system and the reader's native language. Native Chinese speakers fl…

The ability of a student to know the meaning of a word depends on the level of education they are at. Since most information is stored in text, students use electronic gadgets to obtain information about their study subjects. This Dataset provides the classification of English words into difficulty levels as viewed by…

This study aimed to investigate the challenges refugee children face in learning the English language from teachers' perspectives and the challenges of refugees' English language teachers in Jordan. To achieve this aim, a quantitative approach was implemented using a questionnaire. The findings from this study suggest…

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…

In recent years, more and more questions have been raised about the idea that a sentence alone can fully analyze the semantics without considering the context. When we talk about the acceptability of a sentence, we immediately and naturally think of the context in which the sentence can be used correctly. In the curren…

This study conducted an experiment of English script activities on 279 senior students from two universities in Guangdong Province, China. The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of English psychological script activities on improving the psychological pressure and anxiety of college students. The results s…

Concise and effective business English communication underpins successful organisations. During the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) much of the working day is spent in some form of communication, usually e-mails. This paper examines the effectiveness of English communication between integral parts of a business operati…

BACKGROUND: Emerging research demonstrates telehealth disparities for patients who communicate in languages other than English. A better understanding of pediatric telehealth use with families who communicate in languages other than English is needed to inform interventions to promote telehealth equity. METHODS: We co…

This study estimated health status by low health literacy and limited English proficiency alone and in combination for Latino, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and White respondents in a population-based sample: 48,427 adults from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey, including 3,715 with limited English proficiency…