BACKGROUND To meet federal requirements under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the state of California instituted policies requiring that comprehensive mental health services in native languages be made available to limited English proficiency (LEP) populations when concentrations exceed "threshold" levels. METHODS This paper builds on promising results from quantitative evaluations by repor...

AN ESTIMATED 25 MILLION US RESIDENTS HAVE LIMited English proficiency (LEP) and in a 2006 national survey of 2022 internists, 54% reported encountering patients with LEP at least weekly, with many seeing LEP patients every day. Legal guidance related to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act requires that physicians and hospitals take reasonable steps to ensure effective communication with these pati...

STUDY OBJECTIVES This study examines whether availability of in-person professional interpreter services during emergency department (ED) visits affects satisfaction of limited English proficient patients and their health providers, using a randomized controlled trial. METHODS We randomized time blocks during which in-person professional interpreters were available to Spanish-speaking patient...

PURPOSE This study evaluates the psychometric properties of three newly developed items assessing the quality of interpretation from the patient's perspective among Spanish-speaking limited English proficient Latino patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS The authors examined the psychometric properties of a patient-reported measure of quality of interpretation using a cross-sectional survey study of ...

Language barriers pose problems in mental health care for foreign-born individuals in the United States. Immigrants with psychiatric disorders may be at particular risk but are currently understudied. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of limited English proficiency (LEP) on mental health service use among immigrant adults with psychiatric disorders. Drawn from the National Lat...

The study determined the attitudes toward English language, general proficiency level of 60 selected first-year college students, language structure, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. This was conducted to solve current issues comprehension difficulties poor linguistic competence in subjects. It utilized descriptive research. Findings revealed “zero highly unfavorable” towards English; 2 “...

This study was conducted to compare the impact of two vocabulary learning techniques, namely context learning and translation learning, on vocabulary recall of sixty pre-university Iranian learners of English as a foreign language. They were divided into two groups of high and low proficient. In regard to two vocabulary learning conditions, each group was divided into two subgroups of fifteen. ...

this study was conducted to compare the impact of two vocabulary learning techniques, namely context learning and translation learning, on vocabulary recall of sixty pre-university iranian learners of english as a foreign language. they were divided into two groups of high and low proficient. in regard to two vocabulary learning conditions, each group was divided into two subgroups of fifteen. ...

The development of English language learners (ELLs) was explored from kindergarten through eighth grade within a nationally representative sample of first-time kindergartners (N = 19,890). Growth curve analyses indicated that, compared to native English speakers, ELLs were rated by teachers more favorably on approaches to learning, self control, and externalizing behaviors in kindergarten and g...