Predictors of Foreign Language Gain During Study Abroad

Brecht, Richard D.; Davidson, Dan E.; Ginsberg, Ralph B.

doi:10.1075/sibil.9.05bre

In:Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context
Edited by Barbara F. Freed
[Studies in Bilingualism 9] 1995
► pp. 37–66

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Predictors of Foreign Language Gain During Study Abroad

Richard D. Brecht

Dan E. Davidson

Ralph B. Ginsberg

Published online: 12 October 1995

https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.9.05bre

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