The Effects of Overseas Language Programs

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents ix
3. Foreword xi
4. 1. Introduction
5. Language Learning and Study Abroad 3
6. 2. Predicting and Measuring Language Gains in Study Abroad Settings
7. Predictors of Foreign Language Gain During Study Abroad 37
8. A Canadian Interprovincial Exchange 67
9. 3. Comparison Studies
10. Getting Into, Through and Out of a Survival Situation 97
11. What Makes Us Think That Students Who Study Abroad Become Fluent? 123
12. The Peace Corps Experience 149
13. The Effects of Overseas Language Programs 171
14. 4. Sociolinguistic Studies
15. The Acquisition of Politeness Patterns by Exchange Students in Japan 197
16. Individual Differences and Study Abroad 225
17. The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Native Speech Norms 245
18. 5. Diary Studies
19. Language Learning and Living Abroad 271
20. Folklinguistic Theories of Language Learning 293
21. On the Value of Formal Instruction in Study Abroad 317
22. Index 335