The Relevance of Intensive Training in English as a Foreign Language for University Students  

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Mason, Charles

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 21 no. 2 (Dec. 1971), page 197-204.
Fulltext: 21_02_Mason.pdf (431.94KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LLE/21 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Intensive work in English as a foreign language is often an American university prerequisite to full academic work for enter- ing foreign students. Questionable are the underlying assumptions that English proficiency norms have been established as predictors of academic success and that intensive EFL programs are the best means of increasing English proficiency. With a control group of 15 subjects, who took the compulsory University of Hawaii English Language Institute program for foreign students, and an experi- mental group of nine subjects, who were allowed to follow their regular academic programs, the hypotheses were tested that there would be no differences between the groups on tests of English skills after one semester or in overall academic success after one school year. No significant differences were found, except that the experimental group earned significantly more semester hours credit during the year. The implications are, at least for many intermediate to advanced foreign students, that intensive EFL work may be a waste of time.

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