We examined the relative proficiency of four languages (Spanish, German, French, English) of a multilingual speaker with aphasia, JM. JM's self-rated proficiency was consistent with his naming accuracy for nouns and verbs (The Object and Action Naming Battery, Druks & Masterson, 2000) and with his performance on selected subtests of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (Paradis & Libben, 1987). Within an...

This article reports the results of an experiment on production of his/her in English as a second language (L2) by proficient native speakers of Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. In Dutch and English, 3rd person singular possessive pronouns agree in gender with their antecedents, in Italian and Spanish possessives in general agree with the noun they accompany (possessum). However, while in Italian t...

Models for English The majority of ‘Outer Circle’ (Kachru 1985, 1992) speakers of English speak English as a second language: that is, they have not grown up speaking English from infancy, and they use it with people from their own country. In Outer Circle countries, there are also substantial numbers of native speakers of English, people who have learnt English from infancy. The English of the...

Spanish undergraduates of English Studies are required to submit their essays in academic English, a genre which most of them are not acquainted with. This paper aims to explore the extralinguistic side of second language (L2) academic writing, more specifically, the combination of metalinguistic items (e.g. transition and frame markers, among others) with students' writing strategies when comp...

Dyslexia, a reading disability, is one of the types of learning disorder that affects many children. Most of the children will eventually become competent, indeed skilled, readers of their language. Dyslexic children are proficient in their language because of their learning difficulties. While learning English as second language they face many problems. On the basis of their disability, this p...

BACKGROUND Patient-Physician language discordance occurs when the patient and physician lack proficiency in the same language(s). Previous literature suggests language discordant clinical encounters compromise patient quality of care and health outcomes. The objective of this study was to quantify and visualize the linguistic and spatial mismatch between Ontario's population not proficient in E...

OBJECTIVE To describe perceptions of how a lack of house staff Spanish proficiency adversely affects communication with Spanish-speaking families with limited English proficiency (LEP). METHODS An anonymous, structured questionnaire was administered to the house staff an of urban, university-affiliated children's hospital that serves a population in which 10%-20% have LEP. RESULTS Ninety-fo...

Using a cluster randomized trial, we investigated the effects of mathematics professional development on student achievement in elementary schools. Pairs schools were matched prior mathematics; percentage students receiving free or reduced-price lunch and limited English proficient randomly assigned to two groups. One received that focuses diagnosing thinking other formative assessment. Student...

BACKGROUND Mental health issues are a rapidly increasing problem in the US. Little is known about mental health and healthcare among Arizona's Hispanic population. METHODS We assess differences in mental health service need, mental health diagnoses, and illicit drug use among 7,578 White and Hispanic participants in the 2010 Arizona Health Survey. RESULTS Prevalence of mild, moderate, or se...