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Serrano, Raquel; Tragant, Elsa; Llanes, Angels – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2012
The purpose of this study is to analyze the progress of 14 Spanish-speaking learners of English during a period abroad from a longitudinal perspective. Oral and written data were collected three times during an academic year at a British university. These samples were analyzed in terms of fluency, syntactic complexity, lexical richness, and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad
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Serrano, Raquel; Llanes, Angels; Tragant, Elsa – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2011
This study examines the second language (L2) written and oral performance of three groups of Spanish-speaking university students after being exposed to English in different contexts. One group of learners was spending some time abroad (Erasmus students in the UK), and two groups were following classroom instruction in two different types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Program Effectiveness, Study Abroad
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Llanes, Angels; Tragant, Elsa; Serrano, Raquel – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2012
This study examines the extent to which a study abroad (SA) experience has an effect on the L2 written and oral performance of a group of Spanish undergraduates, studying English as a second language (L2) in a university in the UK. This article also examines the role that individual differences, such as the participants' motivation, attitudes,…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Program Effectiveness, Study Abroad, Learning Experience