Does language shape thought? Mandarin and English speakers' conceptions of time.
Boroditsky L·Cognitive psychology
Does the language you speak affect how you think about the world? This question is taken up in three experiments. English and Mandarin talk about time differently--English predominantly talks about time as if it were horizontal, while Mandarin also commonly describes time as vertical. This difference between the two la…
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science.
Blasi Damián E, Henrich Joseph, Adamou Evangelia, +2 more·Trends in cognitive sciences
English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are frequently English speakers. However, English differs from other languages in ways that have consequences for the whole of the cognitive scien…
English education for healthcare professionals in Japan.
Moross Janelle, Seki Naoko, Morio Ikuko·The Japanese dental science review
In a global environment, education for healthcare professionals should include cultivating human resources who have the necessary skills to work in an international arena. This article will review the current status of English education for dental healthcare professionals in Japan. After conducting a literature search…
Practical Tips of English Expressions for Non-Native English-Speaking Peer Reviewers.
Lee Mikyoung·Vascular specialist international
Peer review is an essential part in ensuring the quality of papers published in scientific journals. Good reviews are beneficial for both authors and journal editors by providing authors with the opportunity to improve their manuscripts and editors with valuable comments to aid themselves to make their decisions. Despi…
Rhoticity in English, a Journey Over Time Through Social Class: A Narrative Review.
Costa Davide, Serra Raffaele·Frontiers in sociology
Rhoticity in English refers to the pronunciation of the consonant /r/ in all r position contexts, while non-rhoticity refers to the dropping of the /r/ sound in particular r positions. In this context, the two English varieties, classified as rhotic and non-rhotic can be found both in British and American English-speak…
English teaching system design based on ID3 algorithm and node optimization.
Jiang Wangmeng, Ma Qiang·PeerJ. Computer science
In order to optimize the integration of English multimedia resources and achieve the goal of sharing English teaching resources in education, this article reconstructs the traditional college English curriculum system. It divides professional English into learning modules according to different majors integrating publi…
Medical English anxiety patterns among medical students in Sichuan, China.
Deng Jiaqi, Zhou Kaiji, Al-Shaibani Ghayth K S·Frontiers in psychology
This study adapts a Medical English Language Anxiety Scale (MELAS) based on Horwitz's Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) and examines students' anxiety in medical English vocabulary, listening and speaking, communication, literature reading, and academic paper writing. The biographical factors related to…
Maclagan Margaret, King Jeanette, Gillon Gail·Clinical linguistics & phonetics
The Maori language is the language of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Today, not all Maori speak the Maori language, and many Maori as well as non-Maori speak Maori English, the fastest growing of the main varieties of New Zealand English. This paper provides a background to the linguistic situation of the Maori…
Brain bases of English morphological processing: A comparison between Chinese-English, Spanish-English bilingual, and English monolingual children.
Sun Xin, Marks Rebecca A, Zhang Kehui, +8 more·Developmental science
How do early bilingual experiences influence children's neural architecture for word processing? Dual language acquisition can yield common influences that may be shared across different bilingual groups, as well as language-specific influences stemming from a given language pairing. To investigate these effects, we ex…
In the present issue of Acta Biomedica is published a contribution of Rago V on "Scientific writing like a native English-speaker: tips for Italian researchers". The Author, over the past years, has collaborated with Italian researchers and has generally noticed that their English  status is relatively weak. There…
The aim of this study was to investigate Fijian students' acquisition of Fiji English speech sounds.Participants were 72 multilingual students (5-10 years) living in Fiji who spoke the Fijian or Fiji Hindi dialects of Fiji English. The students' productions of single words from the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation…
Learning medical English: a prerequisite for successful academic and professional education.
Milosavljević Nataša, Vuletić Aleksandar, Jovković Ljiljana·Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo
The aim of this paper is to present specificities of the English language teaching necessary for successful education and professional training of medical students. In contemporary globalized world the English language has become the basic language of communication in all scientific fields including the field of medica…
Measuring English Narrative Microstructure in Preschool Dual Language Learners.
Runnion Elizabeth A, Pierce Melissa, Restrepo Maria Adelaida·Language, speech, and hearing services in schools
PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to examine the change in specific English microstructure features according to language ability in preschool Spanish-English dual language learners.
METHOD: We collected English narratives from 22 Spanish-English dual language learners with typical language development (TD) and 22…
PMID35271346
DOI10.1044/2021_lshss-21-00107
PMCIDNot available
PublisherAmerican Speech Language Hearing Association
Commentary: The Boy Who Cried Wolf or Cassandra? A Consideration of the Correct Characterization of Critics of Neoliberal Reforms to the English NHS.
Benbow David I·International journal of social determinants of health and health services
Peter Roderick and Allyson Pollock's article, "Dismantling the National Health Service in England," provides a history of the market incrementalism that has dominated UK government policy pertaining to the English National Health System (NHS), in recent decades. It also contains an analysis of the latest statute to ref…
Artificial Intelligence-based Machine English-Assisted Translation in the Internet of Things Environment.
Zhang Wanfang, Tang Yuan·Computational intelligence and neuroscience
With the development of Internet of Things technology, the things that machines do instead of humans are becoming more and more complicated. Machine translation has developed rapidly in the past few decades, and the translation system has also been greatly improved. People's life and work are inseparable from machine t…
Phonological Vulnerability for School-Aged Spanish-English-Speaking Bilingual Children.
Erikson Jessie A, Alt Mary, Gray Shelley, +3 more·International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism
This study examined accuracy on syllable-final (coda) consonants in newly-learned English-like nonwords to determine whether school-aged bilingual children may be more vulnerable to making errors on English-only codas than their monolingual, English-speaking peers, even at a stage in development when phonological accur…
An English Flipped Classroom Teaching Model Based on Big Data Analysis.
Sa Wang, Dan Li, Juan Du, +2 more·Computational intelligence and neuroscience
In order to improve the defect that the quality of English flipped classroom teaching cannot be quantitatively evaluated, an English flipped classroom teaching model based on big data learning analysis is proposed. In the English flipped classroom teaching mode, which applies the flipped classroom teaching mode, the cl…
Vowel development in young Mandarin-English bilingual children.
Yang Jing·Phonetica
This study examined the development of vowel categories in young Mandarin -English bilingual children. The participants included 35 children aged between 3 and 4 years old (15 Mandarin-English bilinguals, six English monolinguals, and 14 Mandarin monolinguals). The bilingual children were divided into two groups: one g…
English Research Learning and Functional Research Based on Constructivism Theory and Few-Shot Learning.
Li Chengyun·Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Research-based learning is a comprehensive practical course that requires students to identify research topics from their study life and social life and acquires knowledge and applied knowledge through independent inquiry in a way similar to scientific research. Under the framework of CT (constructivism theory), throug…
English Bulldogs in the UK: a VetCompass study of their disorder predispositions and protections.
O'Neill Dan G, Skipper Alison, Packer Rowena M A, +4 more·Canine medicine and genetics
BACKGROUND: The English Bulldog has risen sharply in popularity over the past decade but its distinctive and extreme conformation is linked to several serious health conditions. Using multivariable analysis of anonymised veterinary clinical data from the VetCompass Programme, this study compared the odds of common diso…