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OBJECTIVE: This study experimentally tested whether language and cultural prompts would influence large language models' (LLMs) assessments and recommendations when presented with the same mental health description. METHODS: We conducted two experiments employing a 2 (language prompting: Chinese vs. English) x 2 (cult…

Understanding learners' beliefs about teachers is critical for shaping English for Specific Purposes (ESP), particularly English for Medical Purposes (EMP), teaching practices in discipline-specific contexts. This qualitative descriptive study examines Iranian medical students' metaphorical conceptualizations of EMP te…

PURPOSE: The current study investigated the contribution of age, age of bilingual onset (AoB), parental book reading, and language proficiency to the narrative macrostructure (story structure) skills of bilingual preschool children. METHOD: Forty English-Hebrew bilingual kindergarteners (= 64.88 months) in Israel part…

English literature and linguistics have long served as foundational disciplines in humanities education, cultivating critical analysis, linguistic proficiency, and cultural interpretation. Conventional teaching methods struggle to meet diverse learner needs, ensure consistent engagement, and provide personalized academ…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Health care institutions must provide equitable quality of care for all patient populations. Despite this, data supports that hospitals struggle to do so for patients with non-English language preference (NELP). We describe the efforts of an academic department of medicine at a tertiary care…

As technology reshapes language education, Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) offers new pathways for fostering learner autonomy and enhancing English proficiency. This study investigated the impact of CALL tools on English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners' autonomy in China, exploring how these tools s…

Previous research on language switching has debated whether high-proficient bilinguals exhibit symmetrical costs and one underlying reason for which may be the potential influence of cross-linguistic characteristics. The previous conflicting findings suggest their impact on language switching needs to be further invest…

Learning to write in a foreign language is a complex cognitive process. The process-genre approach is a common instructional practice adopted by language teachers to develop learners' writing abilities. However, the interacting elements of procedural knowledge, linguistic knowledge, and generic knowledge in this approa…

OBJECTIVE: Although children from language backgrounds other than English (LBOTE) may be disadvantaged in English-reliant exams, they outperform children from an English language background (ELB) on many Australian National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) assessments. Maternal alcohol and tobacco use…

This longitudinal study examined story-writing development of students from Grade 4 to Grade 6, comparing the developmental trajectories of English as a first language (EL1s;= 43) and English learners (ELs;= 108) in general, and in groups of EL1s and ELs with typically developing and poor reader profiles. In relation t…

In the present study, we compared the extent to which linguistic comprehension (vocabulary and listening comprehension) and word reading explain reading comprehension differentially for English learners (ELs) and non-ELs with reading difficulties, and we investigated whether different mechanisms of reading comprehensio…

The current study examines the influence of word type (i.e., emotion-label vs. emotion-laden) and valence (i.e., positive vs. negative vs. neutral) on the processing of emotion words among bilinguals. To this end, three groups of Arabic-English bilinguals (n = 120 per group) completed the tasks of free re…

This study has two goals. First, we present much-needed empirical linguistic data and systematic analyses on the spatial semantic systems in English and Korean, two languages that have been extensively compared to date in the debate on spatial language and spatial cognition. We conduct our linguistic investigation comp…

Neurobilingualism research has failed to reveal significant language differences in the processing of affective content. However, the evidence to date derives mostly from studies in which affective stimuli are presented out of context, which is unnatural and fails to capture the complexity of everyday sentence-based co…

Pain-measurement tools are often criticized for not addressing the influence of culture and ethnicity on pain. This study examined how children who speak English as a primary or additional language discuss pain. Two methods were used in six focus group interviews with 34 children aged 4-7 years: (i) use of drawings fro…