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The proportion of family physicians reporting provision of patient care in Spanish changed little between 2013 to 2020 but rose substantially for care delivered in other non-English languages. Physician-patient language concordance is associated with better clinical outcomes and higher patient satisfaction, serves as a…

The purpose of this study is to examine the construction of language normativity as medical providers interact with patients and animate stance within Spanish-language medical consultations. The context of the study is a clinic in which providers use Spanish to communicate with monolingual Spanish-speaking patients. Th…

This study examined why some high achievers on the course final exam were unsuccessful on the proficiency exam in English. We hypothesized that the learning motives and learning behaviors (learning strategy, learning time) had different effects on the outcomes of the exams. First, the relation between the variables was…

PURPOSE: Limited English proficiency (LEP) is associated with poor cancer outcomes, and written information about systemic anticancer treatment (SACT) is often provided in English only. Unsupervised machine translation of medical information is common, but its effectiveness and accuracy are unclear. This study aimed to…

Huang Beijia's contemporary Chinese novels Wo Yao Zuo Hao Hai Zi (a contemporary realistic children's novel, 1996) and Ye Feng Fei Wu (a historical novel for children, 2018), translated into English by Nicky Harman as I Want to Be Good (2020) and Flight of the Bumblebee (2023), offer valuable insights into translator's…

INTRODUCTION: Video Assistant Referee (VAR) is a decision-support system that helps referees make more accurate decisions and eliminate clear and obvious errors. However, the implementation of VAR in world football has been one of the most significant and controversial technological procedures used. METHODS: This stud…

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in higher education, it is significant to test whether students form parasocial, friendship-like relationships with AI and how such ties shape emotional engagement and learning motivation. However, few studies have compared the emotional and motivational outcomes of stud…

INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to assess whether language affects patient time to surgery following hip fractures. METHODS: Patients >55 years who underwent operative hip fracture repair between 2014 and 2021 were reviewed for demographics, language, hospital quality measures, and outcomes. Patients were…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming language assessment, yet the psychological mechanisms through which it influences complex communicative skills remain underexplored. This study examines how AI-augmented online assessment (OA) relates to self-perceived English-speaking competency (ESC) among vocational Engli…

Assessing student translations in real classrooms still leans heavily on human judgment, which can vary across raters, is time-consuming, and scales poorly. With the rapid advancement of natural language processing (NLP), automatic assessment models have shown potential to enhance objectivity and consistency in transla…

PURPOSE: This study examines the effect of listener dialect on perception of the /l/ sound. In some varieties of English, word-final /l/ is more vocalized than in others. The current study follows up on our previous study, which investigated Southern White English (SWE)-speaking listeners' perception of word-final /l/…

Multiple-choice questions constitute a critical format for assessing language application proficiency in standardized English tests, such as BEC and TOEIC. Developing explanatory content for such materials traditionally relies heavily on manual labor in test item analysis, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming. C…