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Legal systems in many Commonwealth countries operate primarily in English, even though citizens speak various regional languages. This language barrier often hinders access to justice, making legal information and services inaccessible to those not proficient in English. This study addresses this critical issue by deve…

Self-efficacy and self-regulated learning strategies are crucial importance for enhancing the writing proficiency of foreign language learners. This study employed a cross-sectional design to examine the relationships among writing self-efficacy, writing self-regulated learning strategies and writing proficiency in Chi…

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) for low-resource languages such as Assamese faces significant challenges due to the scarcity of parallel corpora. To address this, we propose a novel zero-shot translation framework that leverages linguistic proximity between Assamese and Bengali, enabling English-to-Assamese translatio…

Empirically, motivating students to write is an issue yet to be given due research attention. Some previous relevant works have suggested guidelines for motivating writing students, but the studies qualitatively exploring the realities of writing teachers' use of motivational strategies remain scant. In this study, we…

In word learning, children need to identify the referents of the words and decide on their level of category. Previous research found that English-speaking children are more likely to generalize compound words to the subordinate level than single words. But is this linguistically universal, and what is the relationship…

A forgotten aspect of the decolonizing global health movement is the impact of monolingualism on the practice of medicine and global health. Thousands of languages are spoken worldwide yet remarkably few are used in these fields. English, in particular, plays an extraordinarily dominant role. The status of English as t…

To audit and compare search autocomplete results in Spanish and English during the early COVID-19 pandemic in the New York metropolitan area. The pandemic led to significant online search activity about the disease, its spread, and remedies. As gatekeepers, search engines like Google can influence public opinion. Autoc…

Various studies have extensively examined classroom communication patterns in active language learning classrooms at higher education levels. However, research in the Ethiopian context is limited. While these studies contribute significantly to the field, they neglect to explore classroom communication patterns in refl…

Sometime before their second birthday, many children have a period of rapid expressive vocabulary growth called the vocabulary spurt. Theories of the underlying mechanisms differ: Accumulator models emphasize the accumulation of experience with words over time to yield a spurtlike pattern, while cognitive models attrib…

With a growing 25.5 million people in the United States experiencing limited-English proficiency (LEP), there is a concern over these individuals' experiences in healthcare. Health outcomes of LEP status are well-documented for adults in hospitals; however, less is known about patient experience, pediatric populations,…

PURPOSE: Universities are constantly searching for best practices to promote sustainability when it comes to educating students of the English language. Although this area of study has recently gained the attention of scholars around the world there is still a need to explore it from various perspectives. OBJECTIVE: T…

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have garnered considerable interest for their potential to aid non-native English-speaking researchers. These models can function as personal, round-the-clock English tutors, akin to how Prometheus in Greek mythology bestowed fire upon humans for their advancement. LLMs can…

Listeners use more than just acoustic information when processing speech. Social information, such as a speaker's perceived race or ethnicity, can also affect the processing of the speech signal, in some cases facilitating perception ("social priming"). We aimed to replicate and extend this line of inquiry, examining e…

BACKGROUND: Translation strategies are commonly used for qualitative interview data to bridge language barriers. Inconsistent translation of interviews can lead to conceptual inequivalence, where meanings of participants' experiences are distorted, threatening scientific rigor. OBJECTIVES: Our objective is to describe…

The study investigated the consequences of cross-language activation on the time course of bilingual word recognition. Twenty-two Spanish-English bilinguals and 21 English monolingual controls decided whether visually presented letter strings were English words, while behavioral and event-related potential responses we…

The effectiveness of the blended teaching model in improving university students' English learning achievement has been frequently reported in China in the post-pandemic era. However, such research has seldom explored the students' entire EFL (English as a foreign language) learning process and mechanism from the persp…

PURPOSE: Emergent bilinguals (EBs) from Spanish-speaking households are a sizable and quickly growing segment of the preschool population in the United States. However, there is limited research on the provision of opportunities for EBs to engage in language-rich classroom discussion, particularly in English-dominant c…

PURPOSE: This study examined whether Heritage Language Learners (HLLs) of English display profile effects in their performance on knowledge- and processing-dependent measures relative to the standardised mean scores of monolingual speakers. The study also investigated the influence of several experiential factors on HL…

This paper adopts the algorithm of the deep neural network to conduct in-depth research and analysis on the factors associated with the improvement of English translation ability. This study focuses on text complexity, adding discourse complexity features in addition to focusing on lexical and syntactic dimensions, exp…