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Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the kindergarten, first-, and second-grade predictors of reading comprehension in bilingual children. Specifically, we evaluated the role that Spanish and English skills play in predicting English reading comprehension in third grade. Method As part of a longitudinal stu…

OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to evaluate taurine levels in English cocker spaniels with dilated cardiomyopathy and assess their survival time and natural progression of their disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Retrospective comparison of English cocker spaniels with dilated cardiomyopathy phenotype with and wi…

The present study examined the relationship between age of acquisition (AoA) and bilingual development for native Chinese children who learned English as a foreign language. A composite test measuring different aspects of language and cognitive skills in Chinese and English was administered on 85 Chinese native primary…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of monolingual English, bilingual Cantonese-English, and bilingual Russian-English speakers toward individuals with voice disorders. METHOD: In a mixed experimental design, a total of 30 older and 29 younger female listeners from the 3 language groups rat…

Microbes are involved in every aspect of human life. Microbiology is a mandatory subject at the undergraduate level covering majors including life sciences, pharmacy, medicine, agriculture, forestry and food. Along with internationalization and development of the first-class disciplines, teaching microbiology courses i…

Three tasks were used to predict English learning by Finnish children over a three-year period. In the pseudoword repetition task the pupils had to repeat aloud tape-recorded pseudowords sounding like Finnish or English. In the pseudoword copying task the pupils saw strings of letters resembling Finnish or English word…

BACKGROUND: The university stage is critical for cultivating and enhancing students' practical English proficiency, encompassing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation skills. Losing interest in English studies at this stage not only hampers the development of practical English competence but also has a…

Executive functions (EFs) have great impact on language control indexed by language switch costs during production-based language switching. Yet, how they influence language control during comprehension-based language switching between embodied first language (L1, Chinese) emotional words and less embodied second langu…

The Ministry of Education of my country released the first "national standard" in January 2018, clearly stating that it is necessary to attach importance to and improve the ability of undergraduates. Through the analysis of the research results in this field at home and abroad, this study finds that the thinking abilit…

Late bilinguals often report less emotional involvement in their second language, a phenomenon called reduced emotional resonance in L2. The present study measured pupil dilation in response to high- versus low-arousing words (e.g., riot vs. swamp) in German-English and Finnish-English late bilinguals, both in their fi…

This study compared tone sensitivity in monolingual and bilingual infants in a novel word learning task. Tone language learning infants (Experiment 1, Mandarin monolingual; Experiment 2, Mandarin-English bilingual) were tested with Mandarin (native) or Thai (non-native) lexical tone pairs which contrasted static vs. dy…

Recent work by Chang has shown that even at the very earliest stages of second language (L2) acquisition, the phonetic implementation of speakers' native English phoneme categories is slightly modified by contact with L2 Korean, which is referred to as "phonetic drift." This study investigates whether rapid phonetic dr…

OBJECTIVE: The research demonstrates that a conference slide presentation translated into non-English languages reaches significantly larger and different audiences than an English presentation alone. METHODS: The slides of a presentation from the Medical Library Association annual meeting were translated from English…

INTRODUCTION: Patient Internet use and resources are likely multifactorial. We assess how socioeconomic factors and language skills affect Internet use by patients. METHODS: We prospectively surveyed 116 patients with a bilingual questionnaire before they underwent urological surgery from July to September 2013. We ob…

The aim of this study was to examine the moderators of (a) general or cross-cultural advisory working alliances and (b) perceived English proficiency on the association between acculturative stress and psychological distress. A total of 143 East Asian international students completed an online survey. Results from a hi…

PURPOSE: In today's diverse social environment, college students often struggle to devote sufficient time to English learning, potentially affecting their academic performance, psychological wellbeing, social development, and career prospects. This study examined a moderated mediation model to explore how English learn…

Cultural information has long been recognised as an integral part of bilingual dictionaries. However, previous studies have generally exhibited an insufficient treatment of cultural information, particularly of culture-bound words. As the cornerstone of traditional Chinese culture, Confucianism has contributed signific…

OBJECTIVE: The aim was to establish the validity and reliability of the English version of MisoQuest, a 14-item misophonia questionnaire initially validated in the Polish language. DESIGN: Reliability was examined through internal consistency, measurement error, and test-retest reliability. Validity was evaluated with…

Background With the growth of social media, there has been an increase in health-related studies utilizing data obtained from such sites and applications. Although acupuncture is used as a complementary alternative medicine worldwide, there is little research on acupuncture utilizing social media data. This study inves…

In recent years, with the rapid development of the Internet and multimedia technology, English translation text classification has played an important role in various industries. However, English translation remains a complex and difficult problem. Seeking an efficient and accurate English translation method has become…