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This paper aims to present where research is necessary on tertiary students' language learning motivation to learn English as an additional language. Following PRISMA guidelines, we searched articles in three databases: Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. We synthesized 46 studies published between 2014 and 202…

Recognizing speech in a noisy background is harder when the background is time-forward than for time-reversed speech, a masker direction effect, and harder when the masker is in a known rather than an unknown language, indicating linguistic interference. We examined the masker direction effect when the masker was a kno…

Despite majoring in English, many junior and senior college students face limited opportunities to practice their EFL speaking in class. Some self-motivated students, through self-regulated learning, seek beyond-class opportunities to tap into physical and virtual human interaction to hone their spoken English. This st…

The N400 evoked response component, initially proposed as a marker of semantic incongruity, was later demonstrated to be evoked by various potentially meaningful stimuli, such as words or pseudowords. The present study tested whether the N400 elicited by isolated words and pseudowords was modulated by task instructions…

Using a gating paradigm, this study investigated the nature of the in-group advantage in vocal emotion recognition by comparing 2 distinct cultures. Pseudoutterances conveying 4 basic emotions, expressed in English and Hindi, were presented to English and Hindi listeners. In addition to hearing full utterances, each st…

We evaluated whether differences in treatment effectiveness or preference between languages emerged across Spanish and English during functional communication training (FCT) for young children with developmental disabilities exposed to Spanish and English in the home environment. Participants were 2 young children with…

English, the most widely used and accepted language worldwide, is also the dominant language in scientific writing. To ensure that a publication has a wide reach, it should be written in a simple and concise manner, which requires a good command over the English language. However, this is an area of challenge for most…

Although great development has been achieved in the English translation of traditional Chinese medicine terms, there are still a lot of nonstandard English translation of traditional Chinese medicine recipes name, which were discussed by the authors in the paper.

BACKGROUND: Patients with non-English language preference encounter language barriers across phases of surgical care. Patients with a non-English language preference represent 35% of California households and are disproportionately insured by Medicaid. To determine whether language predicts surgical outcomes, we invest…

This paper explores the method of combining Sequential Matching on Sliding Window Sequences (SMOSS) model with improved Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model in English writing teaching to improve learners' syntactic understanding and writing ability, thus effectively improving the quality of English writing teaching. Fi…

BACKGROUND: We previously demonstrated that in a Japanese national university's medical faculty, overall paper publication frequency increased between 1979-1980 and 2017-2018, while original paper publication did not increase. Further, publication language changed from predominantly Japanese to English. However…

Around the world, the number of English speakers and the significance of the English language are constantly increasing. Among various technology-supported instructional styles, Mobile Learning (M-Learning) has been recognized as a promising approach to enhance students' competencies and skills in the English language.…

Positive psychology, as a core subject to the study of people's positive power and positive quality, is intended to cultivate positive personality traits and positive emotions, and to promote the development of inspiring creativity, cooperation, and interest. The study of positive psychology provides a new perspective…

PURPOSE: Cancer patients report that help in managing fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is one of their greatest unmet needs. Research on FCR has been limited by the very few validated, multi-dimensional measures of this construct. One exception is the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory (FCRI), originally developed and…

Unbiased measurement instruments are needed to reliably estimate health literacy in diverse populations. The study aimed (a) to evaluate measurement equivalence of Health Literacy Assessment Using Talking Touchscreen Technology (Health LiTT) and (b) to compare Health LiTT scores between English- and Spanish-speaking in…

This study used a longitudinal quasi-experimental design to investigate the impact of explicit instruction on Mandarin EFL learners' ability to disambiguate English syntactic ambiguities. Two classes that showed no significant differences in either accuracy or prosodic parameters for resolving English relative clause a…

Auditory discrimination of bilingual voices has proven to be challenging for listeners. This can be attributed to the structure of acoustic voice dimensions, which depends not only on speaker-specific acoustic features but also on language-dependent characteristics. This study investigates how acoustic voice dimensions…

This study constructs a cloud computing-based college English multimedia test question modeling and application through an in-depth study of cloud computing and college English multimedia test questions. The emergence of cloud computing technology undoubtedly provides a new and ideal method to solve test data and paper…

Learning to write involves integrating motor production and visual perception to develop orthographic representations. This study tries to test the effect of hand movement training as a pathway to neural correlates for L2 Chinese and L2 English readers. Twenty L2 Chinese and 20 L2 English (n = 20) adults participated i…