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BACKGROUND: Flexibility is important in choosing methods and modes of questionnaire administration, to accommodate the needs of patients with diverse linguistic, cultural, educational, and functional skills. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the extent to which 2 different modes (interview- vs. self-administration) yielded co…

BACKGROUND: Surprisingly little is known about the use of modal auxiliaries by children with specific language impairment (SLI). These forms fall within the category of grammatical morphology, an area of morphosyntax that is purportedly very weak in children with SLI. AIMS: Three studies were conducted to examine the…

When nurses who are educated internationally immigrate to the United States, they are expected to have English language proficiency in order to function as a competent nurse. The purpose of this research was to provide sufficient information to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) to make a defensibl…

BACKGROUND: It is not known if the inclusion of bilinguals affects the results of research using Quality-of-Life (QoL) scales. OBJECTIVE: To determine the influence of bilingualism on responses to a QoL scale. RESEARCH DESIGN: In this cross sectional study, a population-based, disproportionately stratified random sam…

OBJECTIVE: To assess general practitioner consultation among Chinese people compared with the general population and other minority ethnic groups, and to investigate the factors associated with general practitioner consultation among the Chinese population. DESIGN: Survey of a representative sample of Chinese people a…

INTRODUCTION: Approximately 25% of youth in the United States speak a language other than English at home. These youth may have less exposure to English-speaking media, including public smoking prevention initiatives such as the FDA's "The Real Cost" campaign. Research is needed to explore potential gaps in the reach o…

Mobile phone technology has gained increasing attention in education; however, its systematic pedagogical application in high school English as a foreign language (EFL) instruction remains underexplored. This study designed, validated, and evaluated a mobile-assisted pedagogical model aimed at enhancing academic enthus…

BACKGROUND: Limited data exist on intervertebral disk disease (IVDD) prevalence and risk factors in English cocker spaniels. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES: IVDD risk factors and prevalence vary between breeds and within sub-populations. ANIMALS: Two thousand six hundred fifty-four English cocker spaniels. METHODS: An online…

This study employed eye-tracking technology to investigate the effect of memory load on language switching during Chinese-English bilingual sentence comprehension. Using a within-subject experimental design with three levels of load (low, medium, high), two language types (Chinese, English), and two context types (non-…

Recent studies show self-explanation and predictive inference strategies can improve metacomprehension monitoring, but the roles of pre-reading prediction and cross-linguistic transfer remain under-examined. This study used a 2 (language type: Chinese vs. English) × 2 (predictive condition: predictiv…

INTRODUCTION: This study investigates the cognitive consequences of bilingualism by examining phonetic learning, speech motor adaptation, and verbal memory. METHODS: Early Spanish-English bilinguals divided into high and intermediate proficiency groups and English monolinguals completed three tasks: (1) production of…

PURPOSE: This study examined the writing skills of English-French bilingual (EFbil) adolescents with extensive exposure to both languages in a two-majority language context. METHOD: Participants were EFbil adolescents (= 26) and French near-monolinguals (FL1;= 12) aged 12 to 17 years. All participants wrote image desc…

The current study explored cross-language morphological transfer mechanisms using a similar-script morphological translation priming paradigm in highly proficient unbalanced Turkish (first language; L1)-English (second language; L2) bilinguals. Using noncognate English and Turkish stimuli that shared a similar meaning…

25.6 Million people in the United States have Limited English Proficiency (LEP), defined as insufficient ability to read, write, or understand English. We will (1) Delineate the merits of approaching language as a social determinant of health, (2) highlight pertinent public health values and guidelines which are most r…

AIMS: A diabetic eye screening programme has huge value in reducing avoidable sight loss by identifying diabetic retinopathy at a stage when it can be treated. Artificial intelligence automated systems can be used for diabetic eye screening but are not employed in the national English Diabetic Eye Screening Programme.…

It is well known that infants undergo developmental change in how they respond to language-relevant visual contrasts. For example, when viewing motion events, infants' sensitivities to background information ("ground-path cues," e.g., whether a background is flat and continuous or bounded) change with age. Prior studie…

The emotional stress of English translation practitioners is an important research content of psychological organization counseling behavior. Based on the theory of role cognition, this paper adopts the perspective of emotional stress experience, integrates the construction theory and the self-determination theory, and…

Student participation, as a significant indicator of class learning, has been investigated from various perspectives. The present research seeks to explore student participation by drawing on text data from the chat box of an online learning platform. The two main research questions concern the main types of student pa…

This feasibility study explored suitability of a preventive intervention for internalising problems in young children for culturally and linguistically diverse families in Australia. A subsample of 62 families whose main language at home was other than English was selected from a population-based randomised trial of th…