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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:04:23 CST
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- From: Andrew D Cohen-1 <adcohen@STAFF.TC.UMN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: fl
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Mike.S.Smith%LET.RUU.NL@KSUVM.KSU.EDU" at Jan 27,
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- >
- >On the issue of the value of trips/stays abroad, learners seem to vary a great
- >deal in the value they get from it. Provided their stay is enjoyable, the
- >motivational benefits speak for themselves. Also, communicative ability gets
- >a boost. However, at higher levels of proficiency, a great many come back
- >basically unchanged since they have merely become even better at operating with
- >the current linguistic resources they had when they left. excepting some new
- >vocabulary perhaps. This would argue for visits that were carefully
- >supervised with preparation,post-tests and perhaps some interim contact with
- >appropriate teachers. All of this suggests that, for the intermediate/advanced
- >students, guaranteed benefits from foreign travel depend on a lot of
- >planning and financial backing!
- >M.Sh-Smith
- >
- I really like Mike's comments about overseas trips. They actually
- constitute a bit of a challenge to researchers. The issue is: under what
- circumstances to such trips really have the benefits we intuitively think they
- might? That's why I like studies which as questions like, "How much Spanish
- did undergraduates really get from their junior year abroad in Spain?"
- I believe there is such a study in the Freed vol. on SLA and FL research.
- (My copy is loaned out at present so I couldn't check it.)
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- DR. ANDREW D. COHEN
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