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This study investigates affective responses to words in bilinguals' native (L1) and second (L2) languages. Specifically, we examine how the extent to which concepts are related to one's own native or second culture influences these emotional responses. While previous research has shown that emotional responses are ofte…

IntroductionAsthma disproportionately affects children who are racial or ethnic minorities and those from poorer families. This study examined how the language spoken in the home affected asthma care and health outcomes for school-aged Hispanic children diagnosed with asthma.MethodsA randomized controlled trial was con…

Over the past decade, research in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has experienced significant development, especially because its subject matters are diverse and learners are drawn from disciplines other than English itself. This makes conducting comprehensive review of motivational learning orientation in ESP cruc…

OBJECTIVE: Aim: The aim for this study was to evaluate the efficacy of ChatGPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in diagnosing diseases from clinical case descriptions presented in various languages. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and Methods: The study used 50 clinical case descriptions provided by both LLMs in three languag…

Online learning has evolved as an attractive and viable option for education, yet there is a need for further research to investigate the factors contributing to students' online learning anxiety regarding the college English course. Based on Keegan's distance education framework, this study examines the factors impact…

Studies examining students' academic literacy development have received increasing attention in the past two decades, with exponential growth in the literature since 2010. Despite this, there have been relatively few empirical studies on novice teachers' academic literacy learning process and the construction of teache…

INTRODUCTION: The present research investigates the causal explanation of academic enthusiasm based on the interaction between teachers and English learners: self-regulation, academic hope, and academic engagement among English language learners. METHODS: The implementation method of this descriptive research and rese…

To contribute to a better understanding of first language (L1) and second language (L2) sentence processing, this study investigated the relationship between working memory capacity (WMC) and relative clause (RC) attachment preference of Persian learners of English as a foreign language . Additionally, the impact of se…

Isolated boxwood endophytes have been demonstrated to effectively protect boxwood plants from infection by(). However, the roles of endophytes as communities in plant defense are not clear. Here, we demonstrated differential tolerance toof English boxwood ('Suffruticosa'), an iconic landscape plant and generally regard…

Numerous studies have established that prosody plays an important role in expressing meanings and functions. However, it remains unknown whether prosody is employed to convey the distinction between subjective causality (CLAIM-ARGUMENT) and objective causality (CONSEQUENCE-CAUSE). This study aimed to address this issue…

This study investigates the linguistic challenges encountered by Chinese academics in science and engineering when writing for English-language scholarly publications. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research draws on survey responses from 732 participants and insights from semi-structured interviews with 13 in…

In the era of digital education, the rapid growth and disordered distribution of learning resources present new challenges for online learning. However, most of the exercise recommendation systems lack targeted guidance and personalization. In response to the above problems in the recommendation of English reading, wri…

Fronting of the vowels /u, ʊ, o/ is observed throughout most North American English varieties, but has been analyzed mainly in terms of acoustics rather than articulation. Because an increase in F2, the acoustic correlate of vowel fronting, can be the result of any gesture that shortens the front cavity of the vo…

Health and scientific researchers in non-English speaking countries such as Pakistan, are not proficient in English, which limits their ability to communicate their ideas and findings to the international scientific community. ChatGPT is a large language model that can help non-native English speakers to write high-qua…

The effect of training on linguistic release from masking (LRM) was examined. In a pre-test and post-test, English monolingual listeners transcribed sentences presented with English and Dutch maskers. During training, participants transcribed sentences with either Dutch, English, or white noise maskers and received fee…

Children from bilingual families are typically exposed to more diverse communication practices compared to those from monolingual households. Characterizing bilinguals' gesture use can provide insight into children's developmental trajectory in their two languages and the cross-linguistic effects of scaffolding from ad…

Recent work shows that 18-month old infants understand that counting is numerically relevant-infants who see objects counted are more likely to represent the approximate number of objects in the array than infants who see the objects labeled but not counted. Which aspects of counting signal infants to attend to numeros…

To improve the word order ranking effect of English language retrieval, based on machine learning algorithms, this paper combines a semionline model to construct an artificial intelligence ranking model for English word order based on a semionline model and establishes a semisupervised ELM regression model. Moreover, t…

As the cores of education, teachers' emotions have a critical place in academia. However, the power of EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers' positive emotions and their regulation in online mode of instruction have been ignored by scholars. With the rapid shift of education from face-to-face to remote/electroni…

The article analyses recent legal challenges of the prohibition of assisted suicide in England and Wales to review where we are in the debate for reform, and where we can go. The article, principally, advocates for an evidence-based new governmental inquiry. Aside the fact that this is widely-supported by various inter…