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The current study contributes empirical data to our understanding of how knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL) syntax aids reading print English for deaf children who are bilingual and bimodal in ASL and English print. The first analysis, a conceptual replication of Hoffmeister ( 2000), showed that performance on t…

This article examines the development of primary English education from teachers' and students' perspectives; this is done by investigating environment, curriculum and teacher and students' information. The study was carried out with 42 primary English teachers and 404 primary students from 90 urban and rural primary s…

This study investigates the cross-linguistic transfer of literacy skills in Spanish-English, Chinese-English bilingual, and English monolingual children (N = 283, 5-10 years). Research question 1 examines English literacy and asks how phonological and morpho-semantic skills contribute to word reading as…

BACKGROUND: English education in professional areas has become more and more important with the increasing internationalization of health profession education in countries around the world. In this study, we aimed to evaluate current Chinese stomatology English education based on Chinese participants' ability to apply…

PURPOSE: A large proportion of children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices to communicate are bilingual. However, many AAC devices predominantly feature vocabulary that is translated from English into the child's other language, lacking cultural and linguistic responsiveness. This can limi…

As the number of foreign patients and the frequency of international academic exchanges increase, English proficiency has become increasingly essential for Chinese nurses in the treatment and nursing processes, clinical academic exchanges, and ongoing education. However, the overall English proficiency of Chinese nurse…

BACKGROUND: There are an increasing number of English Learners (EL) served in schools, including children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, little is known about students who receive school-based services as EL and under autism eligibility. PURPOSE & METHODS: The present study aimed to examine the sociodem…

Lexical stress plays a critical role in multisyllabic word reading in English. However, assignment of English lexical stress, which is neither fixed nor marked in writing, can pose significant challenges for English learners and has not been well-understood. The present study aims to fill the research gap by studying s…

With the rapid development of international communication, the number of English courses has shown an explosive growth trend, which has caused a serious problem of information overload, resulting in poor teaching performance of recommended English courses. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a graph convolutiona…

We investigated whether language familiarity has a modulatory effect on automatic sound encoding in the auditory brainstem by measuring frequency-following responses (FFRs) to repeating speech syllables that played in the background while monolingual English speakers and Spanish-English bilingual speakers watched carto…

Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare masked English speech recognition thresholds between Spanish-English bilingual and English monolingual children and to evaluate effects of age, maternal education, and English receptive language abilities on individual differences in masked speech recognition. Method For…

The role of the human-computer interaction (HCI) system in college students' oral English learning is discussed to analyze the current situation of college students' oral English based on the HCI simulation system. The purpose is to study the oral education of college students. First, the theories of educational psycho…

In recent years, China's higher education has developed rapidly, and the overall English proficiency of college students has improved significantly. In order to improve the English proficiency of students in higher education, English newspaper reading courses are offered, many of which are elective courses. Reading Eng…

BACKGROUND: A number of prior studies have demonstrated that research participants with limited English proficiency in the United States are routinely excluded from clinical trial participation. Systematic exclusion through study eligibility criteria that require trial participants to be able to speak, read, and/or und…

BACKGROUND: Domestic ESL students in the university setting are usually not required to provide proof of English language proficiency. Language barriers may not be identified upon admission, which could put the ESL student at a disadvantage. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate associations between ES…

BACKGROUND: Acculturation is an important factor that is uniquely associated with health literacy among racial/ethnic minorities. We examined the relationship between acculturation and health literacy among Chinese speakers in the USA who have limited English proficiency. Since language proficiency is an important subc…

College English has almost always been a required course, and a college student's level of English proficiency is one of the factors used to assess their learning capacity. The quality of students' English learning is largely influenced by the level of English instruction provided in colleges. However, there are still…

Generally, in-depth learning has been extensively employed in numerous industries to enhance the growth of economic globalization since the dawn of the big data age. At the same time, the demand for foreign language talent has risen dramatically, and more and more businesses are steadily raising their English proficien…

Limited English proficiency adversely impacts people's ability to access health services. This study examines the association between English language proficiency and insurance access and use of a usual care provider after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).Using cross-sectional data from the 2016 Medi…

Background Japanese medical schools have made advances in terms of English and Medical English teaching in the past decade, in keeping with their importance in medical communication and research. English skills and proficiency levels differ across different institutions due to the variable adoption of general teaching…