37,959,085 papers · showing 1,581–1,600 · for “English” · from PubMed, enriched with Crossref, Unpaywall and Europe PMC · 5679 ms

The willingness to communicate (WTC) in vocational English classrooms involves the combined roles of achievement emotions, future-oriented motivational beliefs, and classroom engagement. Drawing on control-value theory (CVT) and the L2 motivational self system…

BACKGROUND: Clinical experiences are a part of a university nursing program plan of study in which nursing students may apply the skills they have learned in their classes to a clinical environment. In addition to trying to adapt to a new social, working and e…

OBJECTIVE: Compare cochlear implant (CI) outcomes in English speakers, Spanish speakers, and bilingual Hispanics. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective review. SETTING: Academic tertiary care center. METHODS: Eighty-five postlingually deafened adults unilaterally imp…

Millions of Chinese children learn English at increasingly younger ages. Yet when it comes to measuring proficiency, educators, and researchers rely on assessments that have been developed for L1 learners and/or for different cultural contexts, or on non-valid…

Multi-word expressions (MWEs) are fixed, conventional phrases often used by native speakers of a given language (L1). The type of MWEs investigated in this study were collocations. For bilinguals who have intensive contact with the second language (L2), colloc…

OBJECTIVE: Describe communication methods between primary care ancillary staff, including front desk administrative staff and medical assistants (MAs), and patients with limited-English proficiency (LEP). METHODS: Patients with LEP completed a telephone surve…

AIM: This study aimed to examine the differences in developmental skills between children with and without handwriting difficulties in their last year of kindergarten education. METHODS: Standardised tests on handwriting performance and developmental skills w…

When a foreign language (FL) acquisition begins in preschool, at which time young learners are particularly linguistically sensitive, it allows for a higher FL competence in future. Moreover, a second language learning depends on a learner's aptitude. The aim…

English is one of eleven official languages in South Africa, but there is limited information on children's acquisition of English and other languages in this context. This paper describes speech development in 308 children aged 3;0-5;11 acquiring South Africa…

To examine the neural signatures of language co-activation and control during bilingual spoken word comprehension, Korean-English bilinguals and English monolinguals were asked to make overt or covert semantic relatedness judgments on auditorily-presented Engl…

The 27 books of the New Testament (English Translation) were scored using the Dictionary of Affect in Language. Books were compared with one another in terms of Activation, Pleasantness, and Imagery scores, and in terms of word length, use of the word "love,"…

Concern about the apparently shrinking role of the British midwife led in 1976 to the formation of the Association of Radical Midwives (ARM). This paper describes the emergence and ideas of ARM. Comparison of ARM philosophy with the beliefs of a sample of Engl…

There is increasing interest in the influence of language input during children's early years. Over the first 3 years of life, children are highly sensitive to the quantity and quality of language input they receive. The focus of this study was on wheth…

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether hemivertebra subtype as determined via CT was associated with breed and Cobb angle (a measure of the degree of spinal curvature) in apparently neurologically normal French Bulldogs, English Bulldogs, and Pugs. ANIMALS Client-ow…

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 (n…

PURPOSE: In this study, the authors aimed to evaluate instruments designed to assess children's speech production in languages other than English. METHOD: Ninety-eight speech assessments in languages other than English were identified: 62 were commercially pu…

Many words have more than one meaning, and these meanings vary in their degree of relatedness. In the present experiment, we examined whether this degree of relatedness is influenced by whether or not the two meanings share a translation in a bilingual's other…

National priorities and performance management regimes in the National Health Services of England and Wales diverged following devolution, most notably with respect to the use of waiting time targets, which have been progressively strengthened in England but w…

The research is motivated by the strategic integration of moral and value education into China's college English curriculum and the critical role of textbooks as value carriers in EFL education. Despite growing attention to value integration in EFL materials,…