海外文化語学留学の英語力に与える影響

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Currently, overseas study programs sponsored by various institutions are very popular. This paper will empirically evaluate the language development of a selected group of students who participated in a five-month-program in California. In order to examine how exposure to the target speech community affects the Japanese EFL learners' language development, the following three major areas will be covered in this study: 1) fluency, 2) syntactic complexity, and 3) pragmatic competence. After returning from the above-mentioned program, the students are consistently praised for their improved language skills by those who have spoken with them in English. However, their intuitive impressions may be misleading. Our results show that the area of greatest improvement was in fluency. Despite the noticeable shift in their language performance, the participants' linguistic and pragmatic development was very limited. An appropriate evaluation of these overseas study programs offers an opportunity to clarify the objectives and the value of such programs.
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