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With the increased use of online English courses, the quality of the course directly determines its efficacy. Recently, various industries have continuously employed Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which has considerable scene adaptability. To better supervise the specific content of English courses, we discuss ho…

BACKGROUND: Data collection by smartphone is becoming more widespread in healthcare research. Previous studies reported racial/ethnical differences in the use of digital health technology. However, cross-language group comparison (Chinese- and English-speaking older adults) were not performed in these studies. This pro…

In this study, monolingual (English) and bilingual (English/Spanish, English/Urdu) five- and six-year-old children completed a grammaticality judgment test in order to assess their awareness of the grammaticality of two types of syntactic constructions in English: word order and gender representation. All children were…

The paper describes Saudi English morphosyntactic and lexical features that are widely practiced among educated Saudis, who completed at least nine years of English language study. The occurrence of the morphosyntactic features is argued to be affected by the speakers' contact to the native English. Those who are in di…

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To investigate the English training requirements, priorities, and related factors of non-native English-speaking nurses. BACKGROUND: Few studies have focused on the English training requirements of nurses in non-native English-speaking hospitals, and even fewer applied quantitative methods to anal…

China's economy has become more globalized in the twenty-first century. English has become the primary means of communication and trade between people and other countries as the economy has rapidly developed. As a result, colleges and universities have increased the English proficiency and teaching quality criteria for…

OBJECTIVES: English has become the most frequently used language for scientific communication in the biomedical field. Therefore, scholars from all over the world try to publish their findings in English. This trend has a number of advantages, along with several disadvantages. METHODS: In the current article, the most…

English writing is not only a cognitive process for college students, it is also influenced by factors related to the emotional or psychological level. With the continuous improvement of the quality of university education cultivation, the pressure faced by college students has increased significantly, which has also g…

Along with the progress of natural language processing technology and deep learning, the subjectivity, slow feedback, and long grading time of traditional English essay grading have been addressed. Intelligent English automatic scoring has been widely concerned by scholars. Given the limitations of topic relevance feat…

BACKGROUND: Peer-assisted learning has been shown to be constructive in numerous aspects of undergraduate medical education. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of peer-assisted teaching of medical English skills to non-native English-speaking students. METHODS: A medical English conversation c…

This study focused on the phonological awareness skills of 72 Spanish-English and 86 Cantonese-English bilinguals, all enrolled in bilingual and mainstream classrooms in the same schools. Bilinguals were assessed on phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary, and knowledge of book reading each year from kindergarten…

BACKGROUND: Health technology assessment (HTA) reports are based on comprehensive information retrieval. Current standards discourage the use of search restrictions, such as publication date and language. Given limited resources, it was unclear whether the effort invested in screening and translating studies published…

The Internet era has brought new challenges and opportunities for English learning and English teaching. At the same time, basic education is fully implementing quality education and respecting students' individual differences. The same teacher teaches the same content to the same class of students, but some students p…

Deep learning has an increasingly far-reaching impact on classroom teaching and is an important trend driving the application of educational technology in schools. In the traditional lecture-style teaching process, students are mostly in a passive listening and memorizing state. Simple memorization and repeated trainin…

With the continuous development of global trade in recent years, business English has received more and more attention as a medium of communication. Business English is a branch of English, and in order to meet the practical needs in business, business English is involved in various business disciplines from foreign tr…

The current study explores variation in phonemic representation among Spanish-English dual language learners (DLLs, n = 60) who were dominant in English or in Spanish. Children were given a phonetic discrimination task with speech sounds that: 1) occur in English and Spanish, 2) are exclusive to English, and 3) are exc…

INTRODUCTION: Academic stress is a significant and prevalent phenomenon among college students. According to the Demands-Resources Model, when individuals are unable to cope with stress that exceeds their capacity, burnout may occur. Although English courses hold a significant position in university education, there ha…

OBJECTIVES: The goal of this study was to determine if performance on speech and non-speech clinical measures of auditory perception differs between two groups of adults: self-identified native speakers of English and non-native speakers of English who speak Spanish as a first language. The overall objective was to est…

Despite substantial research, the contribution of oral language skills acquired in Spanish to Spanish-English bilingual children's acquisition of English reading skill is unclear. The current study addressed this question with data on the oral language and pre-literacy skills of 101 Spanish-English bilingual learners a…

This study examined overlap and correlates of poor reading comprehension in English and French for children in early French immersion. Poor comprehenders were identified in grade 3 in English and French using a regression method to predict reading comprehension scores from age, non-verbal reasoning, word reading accura…