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Judith Borràs; Àngels Llanes – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
Performing a stay in a country where the L2 is the official language can provide the perfect immersion for L2 development (traditional study abroad). In the case of English learners, internationalization and the role of English as a lingua franca make it unnecessary to perform the stay in an English-speaking country. Hence, an increasing number of…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Undergraduate Students
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Crawford, Ian; Wang, Zhiqi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
The main controversy as a result of the commercialisation of international education markets is that international students especially those from China are unable to perform as well as UK students in UK universities. So far, research has yet to identify the influence of placements on the academic performance of Chinese students from entry to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Job Placement
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Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Arteche, Adriane; Bremner, Andrew J.; Greven, Corina; Furnham, Adrian – Educational Psychology, 2010
Three UK studies on the relationship between a purpose-built instrument to assess the importance and development of 15 "soft skills" are reported. "Study 1" (N = 444) identified strong latent components underlying these soft skills, such that differences "between-skills" were over-shadowed by differences…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Skill Analysis, Skill Development
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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