GENERAL COMMENTS This is a potentially interesting longitudinal study of childhood academic ability and substance use across adolescence, based on data from a relatively large cohort study in England. The authors find high ability is associated with a reduced risk for persistent smoking, whereas opposite associations are seen with the frequency of alcohol use and cannabis use. The results may h...

INTRODUCTION The paper deals with the analysis of the language competence of the students of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Care at the Medical School of Novi Sad University at the level of their basic language skills of general English and English for Medical Purposes. It also presents the analysis of students' needs of these skills within the field of teaching English for Medical Purposes. ...

Reading disability (also called reading retardation) is defined as a significant reduction in reading ability relative to general intelligence. Some defintions arbitrarily specify that reading be a certain number of years or academic grades (usually two) below the individual's general intellectual capacity. Other definitions involve a certain percentage of reduction below average reading abilit...

abstract literature review indicates that an effective and good teacher has an important role in students' performances and their success. pivotal roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. improving the field of foreign language teaching and learning without improving the qualities of efl teachers seems impossible. this attempt, at first hand, r...

First-year students in higher education settings tend to face ongoing challenges with variations discursive practices and genres within their discipline. Within this context, a Diagnostic English Language Needs Assessment (DELNA) was administered first-year engineering assess the strengths needs of ability navigate academic language. The purpose paper is report on our initiative support student...

Objectives: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have problems in communicating and social interaction skills. Moreover, deficits in pragmatic language and executive functions are among the most important causes of communication and social interaction problems in this group. The present study aimed to determine the relationship between executive functioning and two of its indices (behav...

This study examined the relations among bilinguality, academic achievement, and socio-psychological factors such as ethnolinguistic identity and beliefs, first language (L1) educational support, and interpersonal contacts. The participants were 42 second generation Japanese Canadian youths living in the metropolitan Toronto area. All had attended one particular Japanese Heritage Language School...

In this research report, we describe a study to map the scores of TOEFL® Essentials™ test Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB). The TOEFL Essentials is four-skills assessment foundational English language skills and communication abilities in academic general (daily life) contexts. At time writing was most recent addition Family Assessments. are intended provide programs other users with reliable...