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OBJECTIVES: To examine the cross-sectional association of linguistic adaptation with cognitive function, as well as its interactions with sociodemographic and health profiles in older Chinese and Korean immigrants in the U.S. METHODS: Using harmonized data (= 5063) from the Population Study of Chinese Elderly (PINE) a…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this research is to demonstrate the feasibility of the Conversation Analysis Tool as an effective method of formative assessment in the context of teaching the University course of English for Specific Purposes (Medicine and Dentistry) through the implementation of elaborated and well-targeted cla…

The attentional blink (AB) refers to the impaired identification of the second target (T2) when presented within approximately 500ms after the first target (T1). Although the AB is eliminated when two targets can be integrated into a single compound word, it remains unclear whether the lexico-semantic organization of t…

INTRODUCTION: Many refugees that resettled into the United States (US) arrive with psychological and physical distress. Their health needs are often met with inadequate healthcare. A variety of barriers negatively affect their healthcare access. Knowledge of demographic and social predictors related to key healthcare a…

To analyze the study advance of Strychni Semen, a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, this study systematically retrieved the related Chinese literatures about Strychni Semen from CNKI database platforms and the core database of Web of Science, and used bibliometrics and CiteSpace 5.6.R5 software to visually display…

OBJECTIVES: Learning methods and other related factors influence the success of medical undergraduates. This study aims at finding factors associated with the end of pre-clinical stream examination results among medical undergraduates of the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. The results of this study will inform the tu…

Background Surveys are frequently used to collect data. Although paper surveys are commonly used, online surveys are gaining in popularity, with the inclusion of open-ended questions (OEQs) allowing respondents to freely express their views. Little is known about how Filipino-Australian migrants respond to surveys. The…

This cohort sequential study explored the components of working memory that underlie English reading and language acquisition in elementary school children whose first language is Spanish. To this end, children (N=410) in Grades 1, 2, and 3 at Wave 1 were administered a battery of cognitive (short-term memory [STM], wo…

The erosional morphology preserved at the sea bed in the eastern English Channel dominantly records denudation of the continental shelf by fluvial processes over multiple glacial-interglacial sea-level cycles rather than by catastrophic flooding through the Straits of Dover during the mid-Quaternary. Here, through the…

Building bilingual terminology resources for ceramic cultural tourism is challenging because relevant texts are often fragmented, translation choices are inconsistent, and reusable construction workflows are rarely documented. This protocol presents a reproducible, step-by-step workflow for constructing a Chinese-Engli…

This study aims to identify the stylistic features of the literary mode Yan Lianke terms as "mythorealism" in the English translations of his novels, through corpus stylistic analysis. Using a corpus of nine translated works by Yan and a reference corpus of English translations of contemporary Chinese fiction, the anal…

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has become increasingly prevalent in healthcare delivery. While telemedicine holds promise to improve health equity, it may exacerbate pre-existing disparities for patients, including those with limited English proficiency (LEP). We systematically reviewed studies examining tel…

This study investigates how educators perceive African American English (AAE) and whether those perceptions affect special education referrals. Using a mixed-methods design, 41 practicing educators evaluated vignettes written in both AAE and Mainstream American English by fictional third-grade students. Although most p…

Phraseological units in academic English texts have been a central focus in recent corpus linguistic research. This paper describes a special category of clause-level phraseological units, namely, Characteristic Sentence Stems (CSSs), with a view to describing their identifying criteria and their extraction method. CSS…

Morality is central to social well-being and cognition, and moral lexicon is a key device for human communication of moral concepts and experiences. How was the moral lexicon formed? We explore this open question and hypothesize that words evolved to take on abstract moral meanings from concrete and grounded experience…

This study follows the footsteps of Jonathan Grainger and colleagues by investigating compound processing in English monolinguals and Chinese-English bilinguals using the masked primed lexical decision paradigm. First language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers responded to a semantically transparent compound (e.g.…

The current research on language teacher education has witnessed a surge in studies focusing on teacher emotions due to their recognized importance in teaching. However, limited efforts have been found to investigate the emotions of Chinese College English teachers in the blended teaching context. This qualitative case…

Across languages, words carve up the world of experience in different ways. For example, English lacks an equivalent to the Chinese superordinate nounwhich is loosely translated as "ingredients used to season food while cooking." Do such differences matter? A conventional label may offer a uniquely effective way of com…

Medical postgraduates are the new force of scientific research groups in China. However, the limitation of their English language ability restricts their publication of high-level Science Citation Index (SCI) papers to a large extent. Measures to improve students' SCI language ability from macro, intermediate and micro…

This narrative inquiry traces a Chinese college English teacher's cognitive transformation in the teaching-research nexus over a 4-year time period from the perspective of sociocultural theory (SCT). Several stories were narrated based on the data from reflective journals, literature reading notes, and interaction note…