On the Interrelated Nature of Study Abroad Learners’ Language Contact, Perceptions of Culture, and Personal Outcomes
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Abstract
Abstract This study discusses a 5-week study abroad experience in which a group of English-speaking Canadian university students learning Spanish participated in a faculty-led study abroad experience in Spain. A mixed-methods approach combining quantitative measurement and qualitative inquiry was used to explore how often and with whom the second language (L2) learners used English and Spanish during their sojourn. At the conclusion of the study abroad program, the learners completed a Language Contact Profile and responded to open-ended questions that encouraged their meta-reflection on language contact, perceptions of culture, and personal outcomes. The findings show that learners relied on situations from their free time abroad to better understand the target culture rather than on required activities such as visits to museums or heritage sites. Students reported an appreciation for the L2 culture, mostly related to the relaxed and welcoming atmosphere and an increase in their L2 confidence. The findings also underscore the importance of constant interaction in the target language with host community members. Future programming and related research should emphasize learners’ engagement with the host community, both prior to arrival and throughout their time abroad. Resume Cette etude traite d’une experience d’etudes a l’etranger d’une duree de 5 semaines. Un groupe d’etudiants d’une universite canadienne de langue anglaise apprenant l’espagnol ont sejourne en Espagne. Cette etude a methodologie mixte a combine des mesures quantitatives a une enquete qualitative pour explorer combien souvent et avec qui les apprenants de langue seconde utilisaient l’anglais et l’espagnol durant leur sejour. A la suite de ce sejour, les participants ont complete un profil de contacts linguistiques et ont repondu a des questions ouvertes encourageant la metareflexion sur les contacts linguistiques, les perceptions de la culture et les resultats personnels. Les resultats ont revele que les apprenants s’appuyaient sur leurs activites quotidiennes pour mieux comprendre la culture cible au lieu des activites requises comme les visites aux musees ou aux sites patrimoniaux. En outre, les etudiants ont exprime une appreciation de la langue seconde, surtout par rapport a l’ambiance decontractee et accueillante ainsi qu’a leur confiance accrue dans leur habilete a communiquer dans leur langue seconde. Les resultats ont aussi indique l’importance d’une interaction constante avec la langue seconde. La programmation future ainsi que la recherche qui y est reliee devrait favoriser l’interaction avec les etudiants et leurs hotes, a la fois avant leur arrivee et pendant leur sejour a l’etranger.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it