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CORR Insights®: Validation of the Chinese (Mandarin) Version of the Oxford Knee Score in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis. [PDF]

Clin Orthop Relat Res, 2018
Liebs TR.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
wiley   +1 more source

Agency in Academic Career Development Within Neoliberalism: Chinese as an Additional Language Teachers' Trajectories

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT The pursuit of academic careers within neoliberal higher education is increasingly characterised as uncertain, insecure and fragmented. Previous studies have predominantly depicted the challenges and tensions experienced by language teachers in sustaining their career development. However, there remains a lack of research on how career agency (
Luyao (Elva) Zhang, Yang (Frank) Gong, Huichao (Claire) Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resonance and Silence: English Teacher Agency in a Resource‐Constrained Professional Learning Community in China

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are widely promoted for teacher learning and agency, yet their operation in resource‐constrained settings may reproduce institutional tensions. Using Cultural‐Historical Activity Theory, this 8‐month longitudinal case study of a Senior‐One English PLC in western Inner Mongolia, China, draws on 51 ...
Meng Jin, Xiaozhou (Emily) Zhou, Steve Mann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging language gaps: a study of linguistic transfer perceptions among Chinese medical students in an English-medium instruction program. [PDF]

Front Med (Lausanne)
Tsui JJ, Li EY, Xie CS, Zhu Z, Yin X, Tsui BC, Siu AK.   +6 more
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When Professional Development Fails: EFL Academics Becoming Researchers Under Conditions of Institutional Stratification in Chinese Higher Education

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Professional development is widely promoted as a strategy for enhancing the research capacity of EFL academics in higher education. However, existing research has paid less attention to the disciplinary knowledge and research practices through which research competence is developed. This study examines professional learning under conditions of
Zongqiang Li
wiley   +1 more source

Age of Language Acquisition Affects Topology of Brain White Matter Network: A Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. [PDF]

Brain Sci
Zhang Y, Tu L, Omata K, Chen G, Liu X, Takamura T, Zhang L, Wakasugi N, Zou C, Togo H, Zhang J, Li Z, Li D, Hanakawa T.   +13 more
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Chinese Doctoral Students' Conceptions of Research in Applied Linguistics: A Sociocultural Perspective

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Although Conceptions of Research (CoR) fundamentally shape doctoral students' research practices, longitudinal understandings of how early‐stage doctoral students dynamically construct and develop their CoR remain scarce. Grounded in sociocultural theory (SCT), this qualitative case study examined the CoR development of two Chinese doctoral ...
Zezhi Hui, Haowei Luo, Meihua Liu
wiley   +1 more source

How Kindergarten Teachers Adapt Their Speech for Children: Acoustic Evidence and Educational Implications from Mandarin Child-Directed Speech. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Huang Z, Gu Y, Hu C, Cai X, Jiang Z, Guo Q, Yin M.   +6 more
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Early Emergence of Cultural Differences in Audiovisual Speech Perception [PDF]

Dev Sci
ABSTRACT Integrating auditory and visual cues is a hallmark of human speech perception, yet adults from East Asian backgrounds show less reliance on visual speech than their Western counterparts. The origins of this cultural difference, however, remain unknown.
Yan L, Hu S, Ding Y, Jin M, Krasotkina A, Ren L, Liu S, Xiao N.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources