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Efficient language screening methods are needed for older school-age children and adolescents with suspected subclinical English language weaknesses. Twenty-five English-speaking monolingual children and fourteen Spanish-English bilingual children between the ages of 9;0 and 12;9 completed a nonword repetition task, a…

It is an inevitable process of current social development to apply the motivational theory of educational psychology in the field of English teaching. The current method is to start with the introduction of new language teaching projects by teachers, and then use excellent training to make students master the knowledge…

BACKGROUND: This study attempted to identify the problem South Korea faces in its development of the medical tourism industry from the perspective of English education. METHODS: To assess the preparedness and problems of future Korean nurses in dealing with foreign patients, a questionnaire was conducted in 2017 on 14…

This paper describes details of the evaluation experiments for questions created by an automatic question generation system. Given a target word and one of its word senses, the system generates a multiple-choice English vocabulary question asking for the closest in meaning to the target word in the reading passage. Two…

PURPOSE: To assess the influence of second language (L2) proficiency on production characteristics of rhythmic sequences in the L1 (Bengali) and L2 (English), with emphasis on linguistic transfer. One goal was to examine, using kinematic evidence, how L2 proficiency influences the production of iambic and trochaic word…

The aim of this study was to analyze the performance of Spanish-English bilinguals on the Golden Stroop Test. The effects of bilingualism, participants' age, age of acquisition of the second language, and proficiency in each language were analyzed. Participants consisted of 71 Spanish-English bilinguals, 40 English mon…

This study examined the production and perception of English vowels by highly experienced native Italian speakers of English. The subjects were selected on the basis of the age at which they arrived in Canada and began to learn English, and how much they continued to use Italian. Vowel production accuracy was assessed…

In subject teaching, subject characteristics are the logical starting point for teaching development, and a deep understanding of subject characteristics is the basis for effective teaching. In practice, due to ignoring the cross-cultural understanding of middle school English subjects, there has been a long-term dilem…

Music and language share many attributes and a large body of evidence shows that sensitivity to acoustic cues in music is positively related to language development and even subsequent reading acquisition. However, such association was mainly found in alphabetic languages. What remains unclear is whether sensitivity to…

PURPOSE: This study assessed home and community language proficiency in Spanish-English bilingual university students to investigate whether the vocabulary gap reported in studies of bilingual children persists into adulthood. METHOD: Sixty-five early bilinguals (mean age = 21 years) were assessed in English and Spani…

Research suggests that English-language proficiency is critical if students who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) are to read as their hearing peers. One explanation for the traditionally reported reading achievement plateau when students are D/HH is the inability to hear insalient English morphology. Signing Exact En…

Nursing patients who speak no English has ethical, legal and professional implications for patients, relatives and healthcare staff. Appropriate communication between a patient and members of the healthcare team demonstrates respect, and empowers the patient to make healthcare decisions. Without appropriate translation…

Twenty monolingual English speakers and 40 native Spanish speakers, who were either relatively proficient or nonproficient in English, produced English /p/ at self-selected normal and fast speaking rates. The native English (NE) subjects showed much the same rate effect on voice onset time (VOT) seen in earlier studies…

This study explores the relationship between reading motivation and reading comprehension achievement among English major students in China, an area that has received limited attention in existing literature. Drawing on previous research emphasizing the importance of reading motivation in improving reading skills, this…

This study investigates the use of modal verbs in Chinese-English government press conference (GPC) interpretation. Modal verbs mark the speaker's opinion of or attitude toward the event described in a sentence. Interpreters also use modal verbs to indicate the stances of the source language speakers. The use of modal…

Prosodic patterning is known to affect the impression that speakers make on their listeners. This study explores prosodic phrasing in good public speakers of American English and Czech. Czech is a West Slavic language whose intonation is reported to be flatter and prosodic phrases longer than in English. We analyzed pr…

In this study, infant vocabulary development was tracked in a multilingual society (Singapore) within a socioeconomically diverse sample. The sample comprised 1316 infants from 17.4 to 27.7 months (669 females, 647 males; 88% Chinese race, 4% Malay, 4% Indian, and 0.004% mixed-race [4% declined to provide rac…

Realizing accurate recognition of Chinese and English information is a major difficulty in English feature recognition. Based on this difficulty, this paper studies the English feature recognition model based on deep belief network classification algorithm and Big Data analysis. First, the basic framework based on deep…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the external validity of the United Kingdom English version of the LittlEARS(®) Auditory Questionnaire with English-speaking families of Canadian children with normal hearing. METHODS: The United Kingdom English version of the LittlEARS was administered to English-speaking families of 130 ch…

This study investigated cross-language and writing system relationship in biliteracy acquisition of children learning to read two different writing systems-Chinese and English. Forty-six Mandarin-speaking children were tested for their first language (Chinese-L1) and second language (English-L2) reading skills. Compara…