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PURPOSE: This study aimed to first identify working memory (WM) profiles among English-speaking monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual second graders using comprehensive WM measures. We further compared children's characteristics and language/literacy skills across the identified WM profiles. METHOD: We leveraged a…

PURPOSE: This study attempts to discriminate developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilinguals using only the child's second language (L2), English. We grouped bilinguals by their current weekly language experience (high English experience, balanced English/Spanish experience, high Spanish experience) as a way to eva…

INTRODUCTION: Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication (PEPS-C) is a computerised test for assessing the abilities to understand and use speech prosody in communication. It has been used to obtain a profile of strengths and weaknesses in different prosodic forms and functions for different clinical populat…

BACKGROUND: In the United States, limited English proficiency may reduce the quality of care and worsen outcomes after stroke. The aim was to compare stroke process measures and clinical outcomes between English preferring and non-English preferring stroke patients. METHODS/MATERIALS: This single-center retrospective…

As Phillipson warned, "[l]inguistic imperialism [is] alive and kicking" and has become even more subtle in an era when English has become the global. With this, this conceptual paper aims to propose features of linguistic neo-imperialism by describing how English has continuously spread and retained its power in variou…

This study assessed the effects of the mother tongue and the second tongue on the affective experience of 80 English-Spanish and Spanish-English coordinate bilinguals. Ss were randomly assigned to a mother tongue condition or a 2nd language condition. It was predicted that Ss would express more affect in their mother t…

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: ChatGPT has been utilized in medical and dental education, but its performance is potentially influenced by factors like language, question types, and content complexity. This study aimed to assess how English translation and question types affect ChatGPT-4o's accuracy in answering English-translate…

In response to globalism, many East-Asian countries now include a Medical English course in their undergraduate medical education syllabus. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the related attribute factors of students' motivation to learn medical English through an online modality.Of 134 e…

PURPOSE: Proficiency in the language of the country of residence has implications for an individual's level of education, employability, income and social integration. This paper explores the relationship between the spoken English proficiency of residents of Australia on census day and their educational level, employm…

Roughly 1350 Old English plant names have come down to us; this is a relatively large number considering that the attested Old English vocabulary comprises ca. 24 000 words. The plant names are not only interesting for botanists, historians of medicine and many others, but also for philologists and linguists; among oth…

We examined developing bilinguals' use of animacy and word order cues during sentence interpretation tasks administered in each of their languages. Participants were 6- to 8-year-old children who learned Vietnamese as a first language and English as a second language (= 23). Participants listened to simple sentences an…

AIM: Linguistic diversity is increasing nationally; patients with limited English proficiency require provision of professional interpreters. We reviewed hospital-wide use of interpreters for low English proficiency in a tertiary hospital across emergency (ED), outpatient and inpatient presentations. METHODS: Two coho…

The contribution of teacher knowledge to learning outcomes at the beginning stages of literacy acquisition is of growing concern because the ability to provide quality instruction is central to successful literacy acquisition, particularly for pupils with dyslexia. To date, the majority of research has focused on teach…

Chair yoga (CY), a mind-body therapy, is a safe nonpharmacological approach for managing osteoarthritis (OA) in older adults who cannot participate in standing exercise. However, there is no linguistically tailored CY program for those with limited English proficiency (LEP). This 2-arm randomized controlled trial compa…

BACKGROUND: Limited English proficiency (LEP) is a known barrier to preventive care. Children from families with LEP face socioeconomic circumstances associated with increased odds of developmental delays and decreased participation in early care and education programs. Little is known about developmental surveillance…

BACKGROUND: In the USA, people with limited English proficiency (LEP) disproportionately experience gaps in health insurance coverage and access to care. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 included reforms that could improve these outcomes. OBJECTIVE: To describe changes in insurance coverage…

English medical terminology developed from medieval Latin terminology, which had absorbed a developed Greek terminology. Only a few medical terms come from the oldest developmental period of English language (from Anglo-Saxon). During the Middle Ages, French became an excellent medium for introducing new medical terms…

A model presented English words to three preschool children and reinforced accurate imitation of these words. The model also presented novel Russian words but the subjects' imitation of these words was never reinforced. As long as the subjects' imitation of English words was reinforced, their accuracy of imitating non-…

This study investigates the role of derivational morphology in lexical processing in two typologically quite different languages: Finnish and English. While Finnish is a language with an extremely rich morphology, English morphology is relatively poor. Consequently, the role of morphology in storing and processing word…

BACKGROUND: Integrated curriculum design plays a crucial role in accelerating talent development and has attracted considerable attention from scholars both domestically and internationally. However, current research primarily focuses on the integration of professional courses, while studies on the integration of publi…