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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…

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…

Despite fiscal stress, public confidence in the National Health Service (NHS) remains strong; privatisation has not hollowed out the service. But if long term challenges are to be overcome, pragmatism not rhetoric should be the guide.

Immunology represents one of the medical disciplines that has witnessed the fastest growth in new knowledge in recent decades. In the international journals the new concepts are introduced using English terminology. Norwegian immunologists are almost exclusively exposed to English immunological literature, and are ther…

As part of an exchange program, an English-speaking teacher specializing in wound care took part in several practical workshops with French-speaking Bachelor of Nursing students. Following these lessons in English, the learners declared that the interactions in this language and the intervention of an international tea…

Deep learning refers to active learning that allows students to perceive, experience, understand, and apply knowledge. Deep learning focuses on the mastery of knowledge and skills and more on the cultivation of higher-order thinking skills such as awareness, problem-solving, and knowledge transfer. In order to improve…

Previous work on the rhythm of Malaysian English has been based on impressionistic observations. This paper utilizes acoustic analysis to measure the rhythmic patterns of Malaysian English. Recordings of the read speech and spontaneous speech of 10 Malaysian English speakers were analyzed and compared with recordings o…

This study investigated the role of orthographic and phonological information in reading aloud. Dutch-English bilinguals (L2) and native English (L1) participants read aloud English words. The contribution of orthographic and phonological activation was distinguished with prime manipulation. Phonological overlap, but n…

Three- and four-year-olds (N = 144) were introduced to novel labels by an English speaker and a foreign speaker (of Nordish, a made-up language), and were asked to endorse one of the speaker's labels. Monolingual English-speaking children were compared to bilingual children and English-speaking children who were regula…

Is reading similarly affected by letter transposition in all alphabetic orthographies? "The Cambridge University effect", demonstrating that jumbled letters have little effect on reading, was examined using rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) in English and in Hebrew. Hebrew-English bilinguals were presented senten…

Various acoustic measures of speaking rate were calculated for 40 adult speakers of New Zealand English (NZE). These measures were then compared to a group of 40 adult speakers of American English (AE). Results of the analysis identified significantly faster overall speaking rate and articulation rate for the NZE group…

The TOEFL is widely used by colleges and universities in the United States and Canada to measure the English language proficiency levels of hearing international applicants. At the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a faculty committee recommended that this popular test instrument be used to measure the English…

According to the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau, more than 66 million residents over the age of 5 in the United States speak a language other than English at home. Some bilinguals become dominant in the majority language that is spoken in the community as opposed to their native "heritage" language acquired at home. The objec…

This study used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999, to (a) estimate mathematics achievement trends through 5th grade in the population of students who are English-language proficient by the end of kindergarten, (b) compare trends across primary language groups within this…

Many studies in bilingual visual word recognition have demonstrated that lexical access is not language selective. However, research on bilingual word recognition in the auditory modality has been scarce, and it has yielded mixed results with regard to the degree of this language nonselectivity. In the present study, w…

Chinese bilinguals performed a delayed naming task, reading both Chinese characters and English words, while EEGs were recorded by a 128-channel system. Principle component analysis (PCA) of Event Related Potentials (ERP) from the onset of the stimulus suggested a temporal unfolding of graphic, phonological, and semant…

The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), United Arab Emirates (UAE) University is in a unique position to explore issues related to English language proficiency and medical student performance. All students entering the FMHS have English as a second language. This study focused on the issues of students' pro…