Room for Improvement? : A comparative study of Swedish learners’ free written production in English in the foreign language classroom and in immersion education

Room for Improvement? : A comparative study of Swedish learners’ free written production in English in the foreign language classroom and in immersion education

The present study examines the effects of immersion education on the English of two groups of advanced Swedish learners at upper secondary school. In immersion education, or CLIL, subject content is taught through a second language as a means of enhancing target language competence. In this study, l...

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Main Author: Kjellén Simes, Marika
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för språk 2008
Subjects:
Immersion education
CLIL
International Baccalaureate
advanced L2 learners
upper secondary school
L2 learning
L2 acquisition
free written production
low-frequency vocabulary
tense shift
motivation
mastery orientation
intrinsic motivation
sociocultural attitudes
English language
Engelska språket
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-2760
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7063-191-7

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http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-2760
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7063-191-7

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