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Monosyllabic, quasi-monosyllabic and disyllabic word lists have been constructed from Luganda language material. These lists readily afford a means for determining speech-hearing ability for Luganda-speaking subjects. The speech-audiometric curve obtained on normally hearing Luganda-speaking subjects with monosyllabic…

Extensive research highlights the importance of learner autonomy in English language acquisition. Paradoxically, existing assessments for Learner Autonomy in English Language Learning (LAELL) narrowly focus on formal learning environments. This systematic mapping review, identifies frequently used dimensions, and highl…

The availability of raw data is a considerable challenge across most branches of science. In the absence of data, neither experiments can be conducted nor development can be undertaken. Despite their importance, raw data are still lacking across many scientific fields. A literature survey conducted at the beginning of…

PURPOSE: This study aims to compare and contrast the core organisational processes across high and low performing mental health providers in the English National Health Service (NHS). DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: A multiple case study qualitative design incorporating a full sample of low and high performing mental hea…

Children's use of present tense suffixes is less productive than that of their parents, after correcting for sample size and lexical knowledge, according to a recently established approach for the study of inflectional productivity. This article expands on this technique by providing precise estimates of early grammati…

Experiential learning is an assertion in the professional development of teachers. However, there is a scarcity of studies exploring experiential learning from the integrative perspectives in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context and at the level of a primary school. This study, therefore, aimed to assess pri…

This case study presents an English-speaking preschooler with severely protracted phonological development (PPD) before and after two six-week blocks of intervention (36 sessions). Pre-treatment (3;8), he showed very low whole word, singleton consonant, vowel, and word shape matches. He had two major uncommon patterns:…

Since motivation determines progress in the class, it has a significant role in the field of learning English as a foreign language (EFL), contributing to a successful learning process. Therefore, teachers need to motivate learners to achieve their learning goals and provide them with a meaningful learning process in s…

Work engagement is widely acknowledged as an influential element in teachers' professional success; thus, remarkable attention has been paid to the physical and psychological predictors of this construct. Yet, the antecedents of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' work engagement have rarely been studied. To…

Following the recent shift from negative psychology to positive psychology, interest in foreign language enjoyment (FLE) has grown noticeably in second language acquisition. Given the fact that learners are "persons-in-context" and are not "ergodic ensembles," the particular learner-context ecosystem goes through ongoi…

We investigated network principles underlying mental search through a novel phonological verbal fluency task. Post exclusion, 95 native-language Mandarin speakers produced as many items that differed by a single lexical tone as possible within one minute. Their verbal productions were assessed according to several nove…

Voice Onset Time is an important characteristic of stop consonants that plays a large role in perceptual discrimination in many languages, and is widely used in phonetic research. The current paper aims to account for Voice Onset Time variation in English that has defied previously understood phonetic and lexical facto…

To investigate the grammatical constraints of code-switching (CS hereafter) under the disputes of the constraint-based account versus the constraint-free account, the effects of functional category on CS have long been investigated in the existing studies. Thus, the present study, by asking 47 participants to take part…

This study examined the contributions of vocabulary and spelling to the reading comprehension of students in grades 6-10 who were and were not classified as English language learners. Results indicate that vocabulary accounted for greater between-grade differences and unique variance (Δ= .11 to .31) in comprehens…

The Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-J) was translated into Spanish and was completed by 436 boys and 405 girls from various schools from the southern area of Mexico City, aged 12.12 +/- 1.91 and 11.93 +/- 1.94 years, respectively. The aims of the study were firstly, to show that the factors of psychoticis…

Prenatal depression is a substantial contributor to maternal morbidity, and screening is an entry point to psychiatric assessment and treatment during pregnancy. Following updated guidelines and quality metrics for prenatal depression screening, we evaluated whether screening uptake differed by preferred language withi…

INTRODUCTION: Although Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has gained global endorsement, its adoption in exam-oriented EFL contexts like China is inconsistent. While prior studies emphasize in-service teachers, limited research explores pre-service teachers, whose cognitions will influence future language pedagogy.…

There is robust evidence that people associate certain sounds with meanings, yet the prevalence and importance of sound symbolism in natural language remains debated. This paper proposes that some failures to detect sound symbolic patterns stem from mischaracterizing how sound symbolism operates. Many studies examine w…

This study used a computerized memory-card game to investigate age-related plasticity and bilingualism among Spanish-Catalan bilingual children (6- to 12-years-old) learning British English vowels. As part of their school English classes, children in Spain played an audio version of the common children's card game ofte…

This paper presents a longitudinal analysis of input-output effects in the production of metaphoric expressions by children aged two to five. The group case-study design adopted in this project involved longitudinally sampled corpora of naturalistic conversations between six English- and five Polish-speaking children a…