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BACKGROUND: When a patient and clinician do not speak the same language, the absence of language-concordant care necessitates professional interpretation to ensure safety. However, many clinicians proceed without a professional interpreter, often relying on informal interpreters such as family members or other methods,…

INTRODUCTION: This study investigates the impact of bilingual instruction compared to L2-only instruction on the acquisition and retention of specialized medical vocabulary. METHODS: 50 medical and health science students were divided into two groups: A control group receiving English-only instruction and an intervent…

With the rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) tools into academic English learning, understanding how learners' AI-related competencies influence their motivational and emotional experiences has become increasingly important. Drawing on frameworks of technology enhanced learning and foreign language emotio…

Despite robust evidence that bilingualism does not hinder language development in autistic children, service providers continue advising multilingual families to adopt English as their home language. This research-to-practice gap severs intergenerational cultural transmission and compromises parent-child comm…

Modulations of amplitude rise-time are considered fundamental to speech rhythm. However, rise-time is a holistic measure of the waveform shape and, as such, may be influenced by a variety of factors, potentially obscuring relationships between speech rhythm, signal acoustics, and linguistic structure. To address the fa…

Lexical models diverge on the question of how to represent complex words. Under the morpheme-based approach, each morpheme is treated as a separate unit, while under the word-based approach, morphological structure is derived from complex words. In this paper, we propose a new computational model of morphology that is…

The Medical University of Warsaw is one of Poland's largest medical universities, currently enrolling nearly 10,000 students, including 608 international undergraduates.This manuscript aims to share our experience with a literature review on organizing and coordinating clinical classes for English Division undergraduat…

This study investigates the changes in the Spanish lexical and grammatical skills of 26 Spanish-English dual language learners during their first year of preschool. We also explore the impact of age, gender, and maternal cultural orientation on children's language outcomes over time. The results show that, despite one…

In this textual comparison of seventeenth-century herbals, I show in detail that most of the descriptions and medicinal uses of English herbs included in Culpeper's small folio(1652) and its enlargement of the following year were lifted straight out of the works of John Parkinson, apothecary. This was a deliberate act…

Accurate saccadic targeting is critical for efficient reading and is driven by the sensory input under the eye-gaze. Yet whether a reader's experience with the distributional properties of their written language also influences saccadic targeting is an open debate. This study of Russian sentence reading follows Cutter…

Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, conducting experiments online is increasingly common, and face masks are often used in everyday life. It remains unclear whether phonetic detail in speech production is captured adequately when speech is recorded in internet-based experiments or in experiments conducted with face ma…

BACKGROUND: In recent years there has been significant coverage of mental health in Indian newspapers; the media can play a significant role in perpetuating as well as reducing stigma towards people with mental illness. This paper analyses the content, context and type of newspaper coverage of various mental health dis…

Little is known about the rates of disordered eating behaviors in the athletes who compete in the disciplines that comprise collegiate English Equestrian sports. Importantly, in some subdisciplines, riders' scores depend upon judges' assessment of their appearance while riding, rather than upon solely objective measure…

Lexical features are influenced by different languages and genres. The study of lexical features in different genres of texts on the same topic is helpful to understand the universalities and peculiarities of languages. This study constructs a research on the lexical feature and word collocations of two self-build corp…

While translation competence assessment has been playing an increasingly facilitating role in translation teaching and learning, it still failed to offer fine-grained diagnostic feedback based on certain reliable translation competence standards. As such, this study attempted to investigate the feasibility of providing…