This article reports a study of the relationships between out-of-class language contact and
vocabulary gain in a study abroad (SA) context. The sample (n= 241) were adult, mixed-L1 …

The present study examines the impact of learning context and age on learners' degree of
foreign accent. Participants of two different age groups (children vs. adults) learning English …

A remarkable body of research in second language acquisition over the past 25 years has
been concerned with the potential differential effects of learning contexts on learners' ability …

This paper provides a comparative analysis of the drivers of English Language Competence
(ELC) in a representative sample of European adolescents. School factors–such as English …

This chapter presents the Study Abroad and Language Acquisition (SALA) research Project
in detail, as an introduction to the empirical studies reported on in Part II of this volume, each …

The present study addresses the main objectives of the SALA Project regarding the impact
of Study Abroad (SA), as well as possible differential effects of Length of Stay (LoS), on …

The potential linguistic benefits of a study abroad (SA) experience are well known as several
studies have documented the second or foreign language (L2) gains of students …

The present study examines the development of L2 fluency and rhythm in the
extemporaneous speech of advanced EFL learners during a study abroad (SA) period, and …

The present study addresses, focusing on perceptual phonological competence, one of the
main research questions within the SALA Project: namely, whether there are differential …

The present study compares the differential effects of two learning contexts on the L2
pronunciation accuracy of L1‐Spanish/Catalan teenage learners of English. The learners …