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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…

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the impact of different instructional environments on learners' acculturation and English language skills among adult English as a Second Language (ESL) learners in Canada to address this gap in the literature. DESIGN: Using a series of qualitative and standardized measures…

PURPOSE: Although children's prosodic sensitivity links with their reading comprehension, the factors affecting this link remain unclear. By simultaneously measuring first language (L1) Chinese and second language (L2) English prosodic sensitivity and reading comprehension, this study examined the mediating role of syn…

PURPOSE: There is limited access to audiology services for the growing population of Spanish-English bilinguals in the United States. Online auditory testing can potentially provide a cost-effective alternative to in-person visits. However, even for bilinguals with high English proficiency, age of English acquisition m…

Limited English proficiency (LEP) is challenging for oncology nursing because language barriers affect access to health services and patient outcomes. Strategies to mitigate this problem may differ based on the region of the.

This article deals with frequent errors and misuses of the words and expressions in English medical paper by Chinese authors. According to the frequency of appearance in English medical literature, the usage of certain frequent words and expressions is given, which may facilitate English medical paper writing of Chines…

The current study examined the relationship between interest, the home environment, and young Chinese children's development of English as a second/foreign language in Hong Kong. Two hundred and seventy-four Hong Kong kindergartners were assessed on their interest in learning English and their English language skills (…

UNLABELLED: This study examined the long-term language outcomes of adolescents in the complex multilingual context of Iceland, where children learn Icelandic as a first (L1) or second language (L2), in a background of incidental English from internet and media sources. METHOD: 50 adolescents enrolled in grades 8, 9 an…

This study investigates how typological and metaphorical construal differences may affect the use and frequency of temporal expressions in English and Spanish. More precisely, we explore whether there are any differences between English, alanguage, and Spanish, alanguage, in the use of certain temporal linguistic expre…

OBJECTIVE: To use a preference assessment to identify the preferred language of instruction (English or Spanish) for a child with autism living in a Spanish-speaking home and receiving school services in English only. METHODS: We used a concurrent chains method to evaluate the participant's preference for English or S…

OBJECTIVES: Medical education requires student comprehension of both technical (scientific/medical) and non-technical (general) vocabulary. Our experience with "English as a second language" (ESL) Arab students suggested they often have problems comprehending scientific statements because of weaknesses in their underst…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among the variables of the entrance examination for baccalaureate nursing program, records from senior high school, and records of the courses during nursing program. The variables of the entrance examination were the scores obtained by subjects on their entranc…

UNLABELLED: Belting singers receiving care at the speech therapy service mentioned they find it easier to sing in American English than in Brazilian Portuguese. OBJECTIVE: to assess and compare the production of vowels and consonants of excerpts from musicals in Portuguese and English. METHODS: a phonological and pho…

Previous studies have found that bilinguals differ in their response times on the bilingual version of Stroop Task. Automaticity and control and Language proficiency have emerged as important factors that lead to differences in the response time. This study aimed to understand Stroop Effect in Hindi-English bilinguals…

The recovery process during the first year poststroke in an English-Japanese bilingual aphasic is analyzed with special emphasis on the effect of language therapy. The patient initially manifested equally severe impairment in both English and Japanese involving all language modalities with moderate impairment of readin…