{"title":"Writing development during study abroad","authors":"Carola Strobl, Kristof Baten","doi":"10.1075/sar.19015.str","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Previous research on the benefits of study abroad (SA) has mainly focused on oral communication skills and L2 English,\n while written communication and other foreign languages have received far less attention. This study addresses this gap by investigating\n writing development in L2 German. It also aims to further the discussion about methods to assess writing development by combining different\n types of data. The writing gains of 30 Belgian students in L2 German were investigated after one semester abroad. Pre- and post-SA writing\n samples were analysed using linguistic and task-related assessment criteria. The results are triangulated with data about self-perceived\n language gains, on the one hand, and self-reported language contact and social networks during SA, on the other. The results indicate a\n correlation between self-report writing gains, language contact, and social networks.","PeriodicalId":36825,"journal":{"name":"Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/sar.19015.str","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Previous research on the benefits of study abroad (SA) has mainly focused on oral communication skills and L2 English,
while written communication and other foreign languages have received far less attention. This study addresses this gap by investigating
writing development in L2 German. It also aims to further the discussion about methods to assess writing development by combining different
types of data. The writing gains of 30 Belgian students in L2 German were investigated after one semester abroad. Pre- and post-SA writing
samples were analysed using linguistic and task-related assessment criteria. The results are triangulated with data about self-perceived
language gains, on the one hand, and self-reported language contact and social networks during SA, on the other. The results indicate a
correlation between self-report writing gains, language contact, and social networks.
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