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INTRODUCTION: Assessment of nursing workload is a common practice in the daily work of nursing care. This is usually done using scales that were not designed for Spanish-speaking countries, which may not take into account the characteristics of the environments that differ from one country to another. The Nursing Activ…

INTRODUCTION: The rapid expansion of digital learning environments has transformed English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education and increased the importance of understanding the psychological and contextual factors associated with EFL learners' motivation. This study examined the relationships among Emotional Intellig…

Collaborative learning is an important teaching method in English translation in Chinese higher education and is affected by the development of Large Language Models (LLMs). Previous studies mainly focus on the application of LLMs by individual students, but there is a lack of information about the influence of these m…

BACKGROUND: Reading comprehension is a critical skill for English as a foreign language learner. However, many Ethiopian secondary school students have been having trouble in reading comprehension, where English is a medium of instruction. Therefore, this study examined the impact of short stories on secondary school s…

OBJECTIVE: To qualitatively assess the experiences that English and Spanish-speaking patients with Medicaid managed care encounter when scheduling a first-time primary care appointment, with a preference for telehealth, in the Los Angeles (LA), Houston and New York (NY) Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). METHODS:…

This study investigates the relations between teacher AI behavior management competence and the willingness of university students to communicate in English in AI mediated English as a foreign language classroom in China. Drawing on the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning and cognitive load theory, we theorize that…

INTRODUCTION: Children with speech sound disorders often display heterogeneous underlying processing profiles that are not fully captured by conventional articulation assessments. To address this limitation, this study developed a computerized Speech Processing Task (SPT) system designed to evaluate multiple psycholing…

BACKGROUND: Parental involvement in a child's second language learning is important because it affects the process and outcomes. Limited research has been conducted in the Indonesian context on what roles parents play in their children's motivation and task engagement. Therefore, the study aims to develop, pilot, and v…

A growing literature uses event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate novel metaphor processing as a window into creative processes like conceptual expansion. Modulations of the N400 generally indicate that while novel metaphors are initially processed as semantic anomalies, after a connection is found relating the…

BACKGROUND: Life Skills have been central to Health Promotion interventions and programmes with children and adolescents for over 40 years. School is a strategic setting for Life Skills education. Recently, policy-and decision-makers have focused on Life Skills development for youth. Research on Life Skills has…

The unexpected outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic forced most teachers across the globe to switch their teaching from traditional face-to-face to online without having received adequate preparation and knowledge related to online teaching. To better comprehend teachers' willingness to conduct emergency remote teaching durin…

Introduction Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) face barriers to communication leading to inferior health outcomes when compared with English-proficient patients. Professional interpretation services have been shown to improve healthcare outcomes for patients with LEP but are often underutilized. Methods W…

BACKGROUND: In general, children with specific language impairment (SLI) tend to fall behind their typically developing (TD) peers in educational attainment. Less is known about how children with SLI fare in particular areas of the curriculum and what predicts their levels of performance. AIMS: To compare the distribu…

Investigations of first names in English have found that male and female names are distinguished by different phonological characteristics. This paper reports on findings that suggest native speakers of English rely on those same cues when making judgments about the sex of names with which they are unfamiliar. When pre…

The Science Citation Index (SCI) was introduced primarily as a method of information retrieval and has also been used as an objective measure of the quality of an academic journal. How to write and publish a SCI cited paper has been posed to the daily schedule of scientific researchers. This paper gives some suggestion…

The ever-increasing use of biomaterials in many areas of medicine has led to a significant increase of reports concerning medical materials science. Much of the vocabulary used in English literature lacks proper unambiguous equivalents in the Polish language; inaccurate translations are frequent, leading to significant…

This article is based on a report published by the Northern Nurses' Federation (NNF) as background material for a conference on Nordic Nurses' Remuneration and Employment Conditions 22-24 October 1991, Denmark. The report contains an overview and analysis of data on nurses' remuneration and employment conditions obtain…

INTRODUCTION: English-Medium Instruction (EMI) contexts in multicultural higher education settings present unique challenges for language assessment, particularly regarding student motivation, perceived fairness, and effort allocation. Despite growing adoption of technology-mediated assessment models, systematic compar…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Speech comprehension in a foreign language under noise conditions presents an increased cognitive demand. For multilingual patients with cochlear implants (PwCI), this poses a particular challenge, as audiological routine diagnostics are typically conducted in the language of the cli…

PURPOSE: Effective communication is critical in patient care. Multilingual medical providers, including Physician Assistants (PAs) can contribute to improved health care among patients with limited English proficiency; however, this is contingent upon matriculating multilingual providers. In this study, the association…