Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Freed, Barbara F.

Description

1. xv, 345 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context brings together for the first time a series of studies which explore the relationship between language learning and the study abroad experience. Utilizing different research methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, descriptive), the focus in this collection is on various aspects of second language learning, including the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence, the acquisition of fluency, the use of communicative strategies and the development of oral and written skills. The studies are cross-linguistic and deal with student populations at the secondary and college levels who spent between jthree months and one years in study abroad or exchange programs in Japan, russia, spain, Mexico, France or Canada."--pub. desc.

Series statement

1. Studies in bilingualism ; v. 9

Uniform title

1. Studies in bilingualism v. 9.

Subject

1. Second language acquisition
2. Language and languages > Study and teaching
3. Foreign study
4. Second language

Contents

1. Language learning and study abroad / Barbara F. Freed -- Predictors of foreign language gain during study abroad / Richard D. Brecht, Dan E. Davidson and Ralph B. Ginsberg -- A Canadian interprovincial exchange: evaluating the linguistic impact of a three-month stay in Quebec / Sharon Lapkin, Doug Hart and Merrill Swain -- Getting into, through, and out of a survival situation: a comparison of communicative strategies used by students studying Spanish abroad and 'at home' / Barbara A. Lafford -- What makes us think that students who study abroad become fluent? / Barbara F. Freed -- The Peace Corps experience: language learning in training and in the field / Gail Guntermann -- The effects of overseas language programs: report on a case study of an intensive Japanese course / Thom Huebner.
2. The acquisition of politeness patterns by exchange students in Japan / Helen Mariotta -- Individual differences and study abroad: women learning Japanese in Japan / Meryl Siegal -- The acquisition of sociolinguistic native speech norms: effects of a year abroad on second language learners of French / Vera Regan -- Language learning and living abroad: stories from the field / Livia Polányi -- Folklinguistic theories of language learning / Laura Miller and Ralph B. Ginsberg -- On the value of formal instruction in study abroad: student reactions in context / Richard D. Brecht and Jennifer L. Robinson.

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