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The importance of English debate in fostering critical thinking and the role of self-efficacy in enhancing confidence and performance in this domain are widely acknowledged. However, a significant gap exists in the literature regarding the measurement of self-efficacy specifically within English debate. This research s…

BACKGROUND: The perceived language barrier in English is said to hinder, and in certain instances, impede the global dissemination of knowledge, including medical information, to non-native English speakers within medical institutions. As English for medical purposes instructors, we contend that the issue persists in m…

OBJECTIVES: Undertriage, the underestimation of acuity, can result in delayed care and potential morbidity in the emergency department (ED). Although inequities in ED care based on language preference have been noted, little is known about its association with undertriage. We evaluated for differences in undertriage ba…

Reports an error in "Orthographic forms affect speech perception in a second language: Consonant and vowel length in L2 English" by Bene Bassetti, Jackie Masterson, Tania Cerni and Paolo Mairano (, 2021[Dec], Vol 47[12], 1583-1603). In the article, there are several editorial production errors. Jackie Masterson's ORCID…

The present study (= 109) set out to examine the role of cross-linguistic differences as a source of potential difficulty in the acceptance and online interpretation of the English singularby Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners across two levels of second-language proficiency. Experiment 1 operationali…

Virtually no valid materials are available to evaluate confrontation naming in Spanish-English bilingual adults in the U.S. In a recent study, a large group of young Spanish-English bilingual adults were evaluated on An Object and Action Naming Battery (Edmonds & Donovan in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Rese…

PURPOSE: patients with limited English proficiency may be at increased risk for diminished understanding of clinical procedures. This study sought to assess patient predictors of comprehension of colposcopy information during informed consent and to assess differences in understanding between English and Spanish speake…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the readability and quality of microtia website health information in both Spanish and English. METHODS: The term "microtia" was searched using three Internet search engines, and the top 50 English and Spanish websites were short-listed. Readability was evaluated using online tools: the Flesch R…

This article presents the findings of a study of the relationship between American Sign Language (ASL) skills and English literacy among 160 deaf children. Using a specially designed test of ASL to determine three levels of ASL ability, we found that deaf children who attained the higher two levels significantly outper…

A comparison was made of the scores of 171 Japanese boys and 156 Japanese girls, and of 204 English boys and 165 English girls, on the Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test. Also compared were 145 male and 163 female Japanese students, with 38 male and 73 female English students. Japanese children had scores significantly…

PURPOSE: This study compared English grammatical performance of bilingual school-age children who spoke either Spanish or Vietnamese at home, focusing on their first-language influence on the acquisition of 13 English grammatical forms. METHOD: Scores from 30 children on a cloze task were analyzed for accuracy, develo…

Due to globalization, English has gradually become a, leading to a rising demand for proficient English teachers all over the globe. In China, more EFL teachers are being recruited, particularly at the tertiary level, with a greater preference for so-called "native English speaking teachers (NESTs)" over "non-native En…

As a supplement to traditional teaching methods, computer-assisted teaching methods can reflect modern educational concepts, such as creating student-led, teacher-led environments. The goal of college English education is to enable them to communicate effectively in English in their future academic, work, and social in…

Prior studies have not examined the association between English proficiency and health among Marshallese adults. Cross-sectional data from 378 Marshallese adults enrolled in a Diabetes Prevention Program study in Arkansas and Oklahoma were used to document English proficiency, assess the relationship between sociodemog…

It is unclear whether the brain activity during phonological processing of second languages (L2) is similar to that of the first language (L1) in trilingual individuals, especially when the L1 is logographic, and the L2s are logographic and alphabetic, respectively. To explore this issue, this study examined brain acti…

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess dmft, the number of decayed, missing (due to caries), and/ or filled primary teeth, of English-speaking and non-English speaking patients of a hospital based pediatric dental clinic under the age of 72 months to determine if native language is a risk marker for tooth d…

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: More than genetic and physical influences, different environmental stimuli affect brain reserve, and bilingualism is one example. In this study, effect of bilingual proficiency on older adult's cognitive reserve was investigated. METHODS: Persian and English versions of the Word Association Test w…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for the reading demands of patient education materials (PEMs) to exceed the actual literacy abilities of the typical American adult. The purposes of this study were to (1) assess reading demands of English and Spanish language American Academy of Family Physi…

The use of cognates in teaching word identification and vocabulary meaning is an underused resource in the teaching of English-language learners, especially for learners whose language is similar to English, e.g., Spanish. A recent study by Montelongo, Hernandez, Herter, and Hernandez reported that the effect of initia…