Abstract This mixed-methods study explored the development of morphological awareness in learning Chinese as a third language, focusing on how activation learner’s multilingual repertoire can influence awareness. The was conducted for period eight weeks with 62 Japanese students program at university China. are native speakers English and their second languages. were allocated into an experimen...

An autopsy performed on a 53-year-old man who had unrelieved obstruction of the small bowel due to gallstone ileus revealed morphological features that were typical of acute Wernicke's encephalopathy. The likely sequence of disease in this patient was the development of thiamine deficiency owing to the unrelieved intestinal obstruction, which resulted in the development of acute Wernicke's ence...

Comprehensive models of derived polymorphemic word recognition skill in developing readers, with an emphasis on children with reading difficulty (RD), have not been developed. The purpose of the present study was to model individual differences in polymorphemic word recognition ability at the item level among 5th-grade children (N = 173) oversampled for children with RD using item-response cros...

Despite an emerging focus on poor comprehenders in recent reading research, a number of unresolved issues concerning the cognitive and linguistic underpinnings of this disorder remain. In this special issue, we bring together a set of six papers examining the strengths and weaknesses of different types of poor comprehenders across multiple languages, including English, French and Chinese. Key f...

The proliferation of Aedes aegypti, a species of mosquito that is the vector of the dengue pathogen, is being augmented by the population's lack of care in allowing the formation of larval habitats. One form of controlling dengue is the distribution of information on the mosquito to improve awareness and to provide the means necessary for the elimination of its reproductive habitats. To evaluat...