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Purpose This longitudinal study examined the development of seven macrostructure features in the English narratives of Spanish-English bilingual children from the beginning of preschool to the end of first grade and examined whether the timing of English exposure impacted this development. Method Narratives were collec…

How do early bilingual experiences influence children's neural architecture for word processing? Dual language acquisition can yield common influences that may be shared across different bilingual groups, as well as language-specific influences stemming from a given language pairing. To investigate these effects, we ex…

PURPOSE: The study examined the contributions of Spanish and English oral narrative skills to English reading among 95 early elementary dual language learners (DLLs) from Spanish-speaking homes in the United States. This sample of first- and third-grade DLL children attended Spanish-English dual language immersion prog…

Artificial intelligence technology has become an important part of the development of Internet technology. Artificial intelligence technology can help colleges and universities to continuously optimize the English teaching system. This technology can help colleges and universities to carry out English education in the…

An important dimension in the education of health professionals is developing their English language performance to help them meet academic and professional needs. Though understanding Saudi university medical students' English language needs is key to helping them perform well in their academic studies and future work…

This study aimed to investigate the acquisition of liaison in English by Chinese-speaking learners. Ten second-year postgraduate students of non-English majors in Tongji University, China, were invited to take part in an experiment. They were asked to prepare recordings of a set of English materials, including phrases,…

This study is aimed at improving the accuracy of oral English recognition and proposing evaluation measures with better performance. This work is based on related theories such as deep learning, speech recognition, and oral English practice. As the literature summarized, the recurrent neural network was the calculation…

This study, the first of the kind in the field of English for specific purposes, examined direct and indirect relationships among English language proficiency, English public speaking (EPS) motivation, motivational intensity, self-efficacy, and EPS achievement. The sample consisted of 189 non-English-major students. Th…

This study investigates the use of prosodic cues for syntactic ambiguity resolution by first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers. In a production experiment, sentences with relative clause attachment ambiguity were elicited in three language conditions: native English speakers' L1 productions as well as Kor…

Building upon the prosodic transfer hypothesis, the current study aims to examine the intermediary effect of English stress on the relation between Chinese lexical tone awareness and English word-level literacy (reading and spelling) as well as the moderating effect of English oral vocabulary proficiency on the cross-l…

This study expects to solve the network delay in college English online teaching, prevent disrupting the normal teaching order of college English classroom caused by network problems, increase college students' interest in learning English, and improve the time spent by college students in English learning. First, the…

One of the most significant aspects of English teaching, as well as the embodiment of students' comprehensive English skill, is the cultivation of English learning ability. Teachers of English should help students understand the topic's material and be able to convey, describe, and analyze the topic's substance, such a…

The Internet era has brought new challenges and opportunities for English learning and English teaching. At the same time, basic education is fully implementing quality education and respecting students' individual differences. The same teacher teaches the same content to the same class of students, but some students p…

As the U.S. population who speaks a language other than English at home continues to grow, few studies have focused on the effect of parental beliefs on the importance of bilingualism have on language outcomes of their children. In this study, we surveyed families raising Spanish-English bilingual children on their bel…

OBJECTIVE: The aim: The paper is aimed to find correlations between English language communicative academic and medical competence components (theoretical, practical, and individual by certain methods), to improve design of the course "Academic English for PhDs in Medicine", its methods and strategy. PATIENTS AND METH…

In order to solve the intelligent evaluation of English writing, this paper proposes a method based on the English semantic neural network algorithm. This paper first briefly analyzes the research background of the English semantic analysis system, then expounds on the relevant technologies of the English distance simi…

OBJECTIVES: Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are vital to the global tobacco market. The pack is key to cigarette branding, and review of cigarette packs revealed English as a common feature. The prevalence of English and its potential branding utility is explored. METHODS: Every available unique cigarette pac…

Although translation is an essential component of learning English, it does not receive the attention it merits in the modern English classroom. Teachers and students primarily emphasize listening, reading, and writing while neglecting the development of translation skills. The English test in China now reflects the fa…

OBJECTIVE: Academic procrastination is negatively associated with English classroom anxiety among non-English major college students. However, current research has less explored the underlying mechanisms. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between academic procrastination and college students' Engli…

Under the wave of globalization, the ties between countries are getting closer and closer. Based on the differences in the languages of different countries, the importance of English as a universal language is becoming more and more prominent. In the past, English teaching was mainly taught by teachers and students. Th…