This article presents a study of Danish young English language learners' (YELLs') contact with and use of Extramural English (EE) (N = 107, aged 8 [n = 49] and 10 [n = 58]). They have received little formal English instruction: two lessons per week for one year. Data on EE-habits were collected with a one-week language diary (self-report with…

This study investigated the relationship between syntactic comprehension at the sentence level and text-level comprehension. The study isolated the specific contribution of syntax by asking whether sentence comprehension efficiency of difficult syntactic constructions explained variance in text comprehension after controlling for sentence…

Data from two samples of 32,862 and 6,757 males, respectively, from the Danish draft board indicate that gains in intelligence test scores are continuing and are concentrated among lower intelligence levels. Monte Carlo simulations suggested that this distributional change did not result from a ceiling effect in the test. (SLD)