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Serrano, Raquel; Tragant, Elsa; Llanes, Àngels – ELT Journal, 2014
The purpose of this study is to examine two L2 learning contexts (study abroad versus EFL intensive instruction at home) in terms of language development and learners' characteristics (including students' initial predisposition to learn English and their experience in the programme they enrolled in). Two groups of teenagers were considered: one…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Llauradó, Anna; Tolchinsky, Liliana – First Language, 2013
Lexical development is a key facet of later language development. To characterize the linguistic knowledge of school age children, performance in the written modality must also be considered. This study tracks the growth of written text-embedded lexicon in Catalan-speaking children and adolescents. Participants (N = 2161), aged from 5 to 16 years…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Romance Languages, Native Language, Computational Linguistics