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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 were abandoned in Wales in the immediate post-devolution peri…

Nowadays, English is the lingua franca of science, and the reference lists in most English articles are dominated by other English articles. Publications in languages other than English are most often in French, Italian, Spanish, or German. The minority written languages, that is, non-alphabet languages, have often not…

Researchers have suggested that there is a noun bias in children's early vocabularies brought about by features of adults' child-directed utterances, which may vary across languages (E. V. Bates et al., 1994; D. Gentner, 1982). In the present study, the authors explored noun bias in 60 Filipino-English bilingual childr…

INTRODUCTION: In recent years, China has made strides in adopting student-oriented teaching approaches, particularly in tertiary English education, through the integration of enhanced technology. This study aimed to investigate the impact of flipped classroom on the English proficiency of first-year pre-service teacher…

The present investigation aimed at studying emotional terms (ETs) in Persian and English bed-night stories for children by adopting a contrastive analysis approach within two phases. Emotional terms were categorized into two theoretical models (tokens and types) in phase one of the study, and in the second phase, the e…

PURPOSE: To use the ICF to classify characteristics and aspirations of multilingual university students and faculty who seek speech-language pathologists' support for intelligibility in English and to identify activities, facilitators, and barriers that impact participation in society. METHOD: A retrospective record r…

OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to acquire a deeper understanding of Japanese students' motivation to study abroad and to provide baseline information for nurturing globally-minding dental students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Students from the first to the sixth year (n = 332), at the Faculty of Dentistry, T…

English Bulldogs have been reported to demonstrate abnormal growth and development of the nasal turbinates, which contribute to an increase in airway resistance and hence clinical signs of brachycephalic airway syndrome. The purpose of this prospective, cross-sectional study was to assess the prevalence and severity of…

BACKGROUND: Older adults from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds often face communication barriers in general practice, which compromise care quality and patient safety. Limited English Proficiency is a key determinant of these barriers, yet little is known about how older, LEP patients experience commun…

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 educational culture, first-year non-native English-speaking i…

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 implanted between January 2014 and December 2018 were stratifie…

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-validated, individually designed tests. We developed the Assessme…

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), collocational patterns can be transferred from the L2 to the L1 as…

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 survey after a primary care visit including questions about commu…

OBJECTIVE: The effects of limited English and interpreter use on clinical outcomes in mental health are poorly understood. This paper describes an exploratory study examining those effects across three adult inpatient psychiatric units, predicting it would lead to increased length of stay. METHODS: Forty-seven patient…

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 were administered to 20 typically developing children, 21 chi…

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 African English in Cape Town. The study focused on English speech…

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 English word pairs. In two critical conditions, participants hea…