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Drawing on a text-driven, task-based approach, this study aimed to explore English majors' engagement in speaking tasks. To achieve this objective, the study adopted a mixed-methods design, administering two research instruments in two consecutive stages following a 50-minute text-driven task-based lesson: a questionna…

Short-term recall is strongly influenced by lexical organisation, but it remains unclear whether co-activation of orthographic neighbours primarily facilitates recall or produces competition and interference. To address this issue, we examined the effect of neighbour frequency across seven experiments in three language…

Polyclonal B-cell lymphocytosis of English Bulldogs (PBLEB) is a lymphoproliferative disorder associated with splenomegaly and hyperglobulinaemia. Information regarding both the degree of expected lymphocytic organ infiltration and possible treatment protocols is limited, and clinical overlap with neoplastic lymphoprol…

This study explored bilingual approaches to establishing communication repertoires for culturally and linguistically diverse nonverbal autistic children. We explored concurrent English and Spanish mand instruction across language-specific contexts (i.e., blocked vs. shuffled language trials). Participants first receive…

We hypothesised that people of different language backgrounds (English vs. Mandarin Chinese) might think about evolutionary relationships among living things differently. In particular, some reasoning heuristics may come from how living things are named. Our research examined if sub-word and sub-lexical elements in wri…

While Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandates use of interpreters for patients with limited English proficiency, significant disparities persist in intensive postsurgical care. We present the case of a 60-year-old Vietnamese-speaking man with a Type A aortic dissection requiring postoperative mechanical venti…

The present study examined English vowel recognition in multi-talker babbles (MTBs) in 20 normal-hearing, native-English-speaking adult listeners. Twelve vowels, embedded in the h-V-d structure, were presented in MTBs consisting of 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 talkers (numbers of talkers [N]) and a speech-shaped noise at…

Bilingual infants rely differently than monolinguals on facial information, such as lip patterns, to differentiate their native languages. This may explain, at least in part, why young monolinguals and bilinguals show differences in social attention. For example, in the first year, bilinguals attend faster and more oft…

Three preregistered experiments, conducted in 2021, investigated whether English-speaking American preschoolers (N = 120; 4-6 years; 54 females, predominantly White) and adults (N = 80; 18-52 years; 59 females, predominantly Asian) metonymically extend owners' names to owned ob…

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic restrictions have placed many contractual parties under great strain to honour their agreements as contracts have become commercially impracticable and excessively onerous. This article explores the legal position in England, France and the Middle East under the doctrine of…

Some cognitive linguists (Rosch et al. Cognit Psychol 8:382-439, 1976; Ungerer and Schmid An introduction to cognitive linguistics, Pearson Education Limited, London, England, 2006) believe the basic level category has cognitive economy because the basic level category allows obtaining the maximum amount of information…

With the rapid development of computer science, there are more and more kinds of discrete dynamic systems. Computer integrated system CIMS, network communication database administrator system, and human behavior analysis system are all discrete dynamic systems. At present, many researchers have studied by adding human…

The rapid development of the internet and multimedia technology in recent years has continued to push foreign language education in the direction of modern education. Multimodal education is becoming more and more important in the field of English education as an advanced educational concept in the field of language ed…