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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether doctor-patient encounters in general practice with patients from a non-English-speaking background (NESB) differ from encounters with patients of English-speaking background (ESB) in terms of the type of practice where the encounters occur and the type of problems managed. DESIGN AND SE…

The current study involved an evaluation of the emergence of untrained verbal relations as a function of 3 different foreign-language teaching strategies. Two Spanish-speaking adults received foreign-language (English) tact training and native-to-foreign and foreign-to-native intraverbal training. Tact training and nat…

The same syllables /mu/ and /ra/ written in Japanese hiragana and romaji given on a standard speeded naming task elicited phonetically or acoustically different responses in a syllabic hiragana condition and a romaji condition. The participants were two groups of Japanese college students (ns = 15 and 16) with differen…

This paper is the first report of an aphasic patient (GT) who shows a selective impairment in naming musical notes and letters in the context of preserved instrumental reading of notes. The ability to orally name notes (which are given the letter names A-G in English) and to play notes from a spoken note name was sever…

English instruction for children with haring loss has traditionally focused on teaching about language conventions, with much less attention to learning language, or to learning through language-especially its discourse features. The author argues that language intervention, through the collaborative efforts of speech-…

Fracture of the sesamoid bone of the thumb is a rare injury. In this report three additional cases with fracture of an ulnar sesamoid bone of the thumb are reported. The anatomic considerations, the mechanisms of injury, the differential diagnoses, and management are discussed with the English-language literature.

Sounds and Images, a measure of originality, was administered to 131 English-speaking high school students of Orissa, India in 1987. The test has two forms, viz., IA and IB. Each form has four sounds which were presented three times. To each the students wrote their verbal images which were scored for originality and a…

It's 2000. Walk into a department of a typical healthcare organization. Of the 14 employees, four are African-American, five are Hispanic, three are Asian, and two are white. Seven are women. For at least half of the group, English is a second language. Are you willing to teach English to improve service to patients an…

The WHO Scientific Group to Adopt a Standard International Acupuncture Nomenclature met in Geneva from 30 October to 3 November 1989. The main features of the recommended nomenclature are the use of the English translation of the name of each meridian and an alphanumeric code derived from the English names, and the use…

Before nomenclatorial translation can be begun, an approved definition of the term concerned is required, as is a systematic classification of related designations. Existing sources are bi- or multi-lingual dictionaries and glossaries but relatively few of these cover oral biology and dentistry in adequate detail. Much…

Comprehension of English language texts was tested among paramedical students. Tests were carried out using the cloze procedure on texts thought appropriate for these students, and previously tested to determine the expected number of years of schooling needed to comprehend them by using the Fog Index. In only 2% of 22…

A case is reported of an English woman who presented with a mass in the breast which was locally excised. Histological studies revealed a giant-cell granulomatous inflammation involving the duct system and a fungus showing brown pigmentation was demonstrated in the lesions. This was not grown in culture but the morphol…