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IssueThere is a need for greater access to Spanish language services in United States healthcare. One approach to increasing language concordant care is the use of second language skills by healthcare staff. The desire to use second language skills may have unintended consequences when individuals step beyond their lan…

Content and language integrated learning is an evidenced approach focused on teaching content in which the language is learnt implicitly, facilitating internationalization. The purpose of this study was to determine nursing student satisfaction with a clinical skills course taught in English in a non-English speaking c…

BACKGROUND: After emergency department (ED) discharge, Spanish-speaking patients with limited English proficiency are less likely than English-proficient patients to be adherent to medical recommendations and are more likely to be dissatisfied with their visit. OBJECTIVES: To determine if integrating a longitudinal me…

The USAID has, since 1972, funded the development of a new methodology for educational radio for young children through 3 projects: the Radio Mathematics PRoject of Nicaragua, the Radio Language Arts Project of Kenya, and the Radio Science PRoject of Papua New Guinea. These projects developed math programs for grades 1…

BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence-generated feedback (AI-GF) is increasingly used in computer-assisted English as a Foreign Language formative assessment, yet learner engagement with such feedback varies considerably. Previous research has focused largely on technical effectiveness, providing limited insight into how…

INTRODUCTION: This study investigates sentence comprehension in Mandarin-English bilinguals, focusing on whether the widely reported, yet contested, subject-relative processing advantage extends to bilingual speakers. We evaluate which theoretical accounts, based on syntactic structure and canonicity, best explain cros…

This study develops and validates the Scale of Students' Perception of AIGC Feedback for English Pronunciation Learning. The research was conducted at a university in northern China using a convenience sampling method. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) involved 207 participants, while the confirmatory factor analys…

BACKGROUND: Globalization and immigration have increased language-discordant care, which can adversely affect patient outcomes. Although foreign language anxiety (FLA) is well-studied in education, it is largely unexplored in health care, where it may hinder communication and clinical decision-making. METHODS: This si…

In English, voiceless stop consonants (i.e., /p-t-k/) have long voice onset times (VOT), and voiced stop consonants (i.e., /b-d-g/) have short VOTs. In French, voiceless stop consonants have short VOTs while voiced stop consonants have pre-lag VOTs, which can make late second language (L2) learning of English difficult…

PURPOSE: The current study examined the impact of cross-linguistic and cultural differences on an animal fluency task between Korean- and English-speaking persons with aphasia (PWA) and neurologically intact older adults (OAs). Specifically, we investigated the influence of zodiac animals on word retrieval, given their…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of three large language models in answering questions regarding pediatric developmental dysplasia of the hip. METHODS: We formulated 18 open-ended clinical questions in both Chinese and English and established a gold standard set of answers to benchmark the responses of the large…

The objective of this replication study was to compare the perspectives of Hebrew-speaking speech-language pathologists (SLPs) on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) assessment and intervention in each of the five language domains (semantics, pragmatics, phonology, morphology, and syntax) with those previo…

OBJECTIVE: To qualitatively explore Medicaid-enrolled parents' and young adult patients' perspectives and experiences with telemedicine in pediatric primary care. METHODS: We conducted semi-structured interviews with participants to explore their experiences with telemedicine. Participants consisted of English- and Sp…

Every day, millions of viewers worldwide engage with subtitled content, and an increasing number choose to watch without sound. In this mixed-methods study, we examine the impact of sound presence or absence on the viewing experience of both first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) viewers when they watch subtitled…

It is common practice in speech research to only sample participants who self-report being "native English speakers." Although there is research on differences in language processing between native and nonnative listeners (see Lecumberri et al., 2010, for a review), the majority of speech research that aims to establis…

Language proficiencies have implications for how parents and children can communicate effectively and how culture and heritage can be transferred across generations. Previous research has sought to understand the relationship between parent language (mainstream, heritage) proficiencies and the ethnic-racial orientation…

The purpose of the present study was to examine the influence of visual cues in audiovisual perception of interrupted speech by nonnative English listeners and to identify the role of working memory, long-term memory retrieval, and vocabulary knowledge in audiovisual perception by nonnative listeners. The participants…

In the healthcare field, the terms "traqueotomía" and "traqueostomía" are frequently used, often leading to confusion among professionals regarding the appropriate definition for each term or which one should be considered more correct in specific cases. A search was conducted for the terms "traqueotomía…

BACKGROUND: A low incidence of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) in children in the North Denmark Region (NDR) were measured in 2007-2017. Few of the children diagnosed before 2017 were treated to remission suggesting a lack of awareness. While there currently are no guidelines for treating EoE in Denmark, a new English g…

BACKGROUND: The global use of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry. Despite the fact that AI is becoming more popular, there is still a lack of evidence on its use in dermatology. OBJECTIVES: To determine the capacity of ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 to support dermatolog…