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PURPOSE: Americans with limited English proficiency (LEP) face significant barriers to health care that result in health disparities in the LEP population. LEP could delay an MRI, potentially increasing morbidity and mortality in the LEP population. This study compares the time to obtain a neurological MRI in English v…

OBJECTIVE: Non-native listeners do not recognize English sentences as effectively as native listeners, especially in noise. It is not entirely clear to what extent such group differences arise from differences in relative weight of semantic versus syntactic cues. This study quantified the use and weighting of these con…

BACKGROUND: The acculturation hypothesis proposes an overall disadvantage in health outcomes for Hispanic immigrants with more time spent living in the U.S., but little is known about how generational status and language may influence Hispanic children's relative weight and activity patterns. PURPOSE: To investigate a…

Drawing on ecological systems theory, this study proposed a moderated mediation model to examine how social support influences English academic achievement. Specifically, the model tested the mediating role of foreign language academic emotions and the moderating role of English academic self-concept. A total of 1,877…

Formal and semantic overlap across languages plays an important role in bilingual language processing systems. In the present study, Japanese (first language; L1)-English (second language; L2) bilinguals rated 193 Japanese-English word pairs, including cognates and noncognates, in terms of phonological and semantic sim…

A Japanese medical paper grammatically translated into English may not be accepted by elite international journals. The problem lies not with the language, but the title and structure of the Japanese papers. Indicative titles must be changed to informative titles. The introduction should consist of current knowledge, u…

BACKGROUND: In the context of rapid advancements in intelligent language technology, issues concerning professional identity and learning engagement among English majors have become increasingly prominent. Some students experience unclear professional identity and insufficient academic engagement, which affects the qua…

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools have become increasingly integrated into university-level English learning, yet their pedagogical role within input-based instruction and English-medium education remains insufficiently understood. This mixed-methods study examines how first-year students in a Thai higher education in…

In response to pedagogical reforms in English language teaching (ELT) within Chinese higher vocational education, growing attention has been placed on cultivating students' professional oral English competence alongside intercultural communicative competence (ICC), which are global skills required in the educational an…

While previous studies have examined front-line teachers' written feedback practices in second language (L2) writing classrooms, such studies tend to not take teachers' language and sociocultural backgrounds into consideration, which may mediate their performance in written feedback provision. Therefore, much remains t…

Globalization has brought an increase of non-Japanese residents in Japan; it has been urgent for nurses to improve conversational skills. We designed and developed an e-learning system for nurses to learn medical English and Chinese conversation. The teaching materials were created as a video including conversations in…

TCM terms of diseases and symptoms are important elements of traditional Chinese medical nomenclature. Good English translation of these terms plays an active role in standardizing English translation of TCM terms. Through comparing the names of diseases and symptoms in Chinese and Western medicine and sorting, the aut…

Exposure to and personal interactions with people of diverse cultures foster an acceptance of multiculturalism. To this end, the English Conversation Pairs Program provides weekly conversation sessions between students who are native speakers of English (NSE) and students who speak English as a second language (ESL). A…

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether older Mexican-Americans who cannot speak and/or understand spoken English have higher rates of mobility limitations or fear of falling than their English-speaking counterparts. DESIGN: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 1169 community-dwelling Mexican-Americans aged 72-96 years…

PURPOSE: Percent grammatical utterances (PGU) provides clinicians and researchers with meaningful information on young children's grammatical abilities (Eisenberg & Guo, 2016). However, work is still needed to place PGU within the context of conventional language sample measures and understand how PGU reflects grammati…

OBJECTIVES: Written discharge guidance for hospitalized pediatric patients should include language-appropriate key elements to ensure positive discharge outcomes. Our objective in this study was to determine the completeness of written pediatric discharge guidance and to test the hypothesis that Spanish-speaking famili…

BACKGROUND: Approximately 21% of the US population speaks a language other than English at home; many of these individuals cannot effectively communicate in English. Hispanic and Chinese Americans, in particular, are the two largest minority groups having low health literacy in the United States. Fortunately, machine-g…

PURPOSE: We aimed to evaluate the measurement properties of the Singapore English and Chinese versions of the Short-Form 36 version 2 (SF-36v2) Questionnaire, an improved version of the widely used SF-36, for assessing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a multi-ethnic urban Asian population in Singapore. METHOD…

BACKGROUND: At least two-thirds of the world's children grow up in environments where more than one language is spoken. Despite the global predominance of multilingualism, much remains unknown regarding the language acquisition of children acquiring multiple languages compared with monolingual children. A greater under…