ESP courses and linguistic achievement of engineering students in the Basque Country

  1. González Ardeo, José Miguel
Revista:
VIAL, Vigo international journal of applied linguistics

ISSN: 1697-0381

Año de publicación: 2004

Número: 1

Páginas: 75-112

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

This study compares the performance of a group of 108 students who are proficient in Basque and Spanish and a group of 36 monolingual Spanish students. All of them are learning English for Science and Technology. It aims at analysing whether bilinguals outperform monolinguals on lexical and phonetic production. Similarly, bilinguals whose L1 is Basque are expected to do better then L1 Spanish speakers. Social and individual variables are taken into account. The results showed that bilinguals outperformed monolinguals, although the differences were not statistically significant. They also seemed to indicate that L1 Basque speakers outperformed L1 Spanish speakers and that bilinguals had an advantage on lexical acquisition.

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