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This study evaluated the equivalence of Chinese and US-English versions of the SF-36 Health Survey in a convenience sample of 309 Chinese nationals bilingual in Chinese and English living in a US city. Snowball sampling was used to generate sufficient sample size. Internal consistency, test-retest, and equivalent-forms…

The aim of this study was to assess whether mothers whose first language is not English are as accurate as English speakers in reporting on their child's hearing. Some Health Trusts are using parental report following an educative process as part of their screening programme for hearing impairment. At present, in Wands…

English has been the only compulsory foreign language taught in colleges in Taiwan since 2005. It was referred to as 'English for General Purposes (EGP)' and was taught not only for students' further major-related studies, but also for future job competitiveness. With the implementation of 'The Program on Bilingual Edu…

In the context of increasing legislative emphasis on universal screening for reading problems, the accurate and equitable assessment of English learners (ELs) remains a pressing concern. This study examines how kindergarten and first-grade students' performance on early literacy measures in English is affected by their…

The English and Spanish languages share over 20,000 cognates. Cognates are words that are orthographically, semantically, and syntactically similar in two languages. In 2009, Montelongo, Hernández, and Herter collected orthographic transparency ratings for over 2,000 Spanish-English cognate nouns and cognate adjec…

This study investigates the role of derivational morphology in lexical processing in two typologically quite different languages: Finnish and English. While Finnish is a language with an extremely rich morphology, English morphology is relatively poor. Consequently, the role of morphology in storing and processing word…

This study examines the acquisition of the linguistic mass/count distinction in English by bilingual (Spanish-English) children. The goal of the study is to explore whether bilingual children, like their monolingual peers, can draw information from the linguistic context in which a new noun id presented to determine wh…

OBJECTIVES: This project aimed to compare perceptual ratings of voice quality of normal and disordered voices of Australian English speakers and Hong Kong (HK) Cantonese speakers across speech pathology student listeners who spoke Cantonese (tone) first language vs English (non-tone) first language. METHODS: In total,…

PURPOSE: To assess whether the readability and quality of Spanish- and English-language online uterine artery embolization (UAE) patient education resources significantly exceed the recommended sixth-grade reading level and examine potential disparities in readability and quality between the 2 languages to inform effor…

Previous work has predominantly focused on word reading in studying literacy difficulties; very little work has focused on spelling difficulty instead. The present study adopted spelling (dictation) as the criterion to classify poor literacy skills in Hong Kong Chinese-English bilingual children. We examined the cognit…

English is the lingua franca for scientific communication, but some journals, especially in developing countries, still publish non-English studies. A shift towards publishing in English may promote internationalization and more visibility of scientific journals. Here we compared quality indexes between Brazilian journ…

STUDY DESIGN: Prospective cohort study along with questionnaire. PURPOSE: To measure the correlation of the visual analogue score (VAS), with (Oswestry disability Index [ODI], version 2.1a) in English, and modified ODI (English and Hindi version). To validate translated version of the modified ODI in English version t…

PURPOSE: In this study, the authors evaluated the efficacy of a Spanish-English versus English-only vocabulary intervention for dual-language learners (DLLs) with language impairment compared to mathematics intervention groups and typically developing controls with no intervention. Further, in this study the authors al…

We test the claim that acquiring a mass-count language, like English, causes speakers to think differently about entities in the world, relative to speakers of classifier languages like Japanese. We use three tasks to assess this claim: object-substance rating, quantity judgment, and word extension. Using the first two…

Studies of cross-language consonant discrimination have shown a shift from a language-general to a language-specific pattern during the first year of life. Recently, the same pattern of change was observed for English-speaking infants' discrimination of two non-native vowel contrasts (Polka and Werker, 1994). The prese…

BACKGROUND: Although widely employed in clinical research, no studies have evaluated the psychometric properties of the English version of the Borderline Symptom List–23 (BSL-23), including the equivalence of its mean score to that of the German version. Using Item Response Theory, we: a) examined the psychometr…

OBJECTIVE: To test whether infant-directed foreign language active learning would specifically increase speech sound differentiation to the intervention language while not decreasing differentiation in response to English. STUDY DESIGN: Pilot randomized controlled trial of stable infants born preterm in the newborn in…

BACKGROUND: New Zealand has a diverse population, one quarter classifying themselves as migrants. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that women whose primary language is not English report poorer recovery scores following caesarean section than primary English speakers. METHODS: We recruited women to complete the…

The primary aim of this study was to determine if adults whose native language permits neither voiced nor voiceless stops to occur in word-final position can master the English word-final /t/-/d/ contrast. Native English-speaking listeners identified the voicing feature in word-final stops produced by talkers in five g…

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular medicine is rapidly evolving, as it integrates digital technologies intended to decentralize care from the clinic and/or hospital setting into patient's homes and communities. However, clinical trials of digital technologies are frequently written and communicated solely in English, potential…