The ERASMUS sojourn: does the destination country or pre-departure proficiency impact oral proficiency gains?

Figures & data

Table 1. Descriptive statistics for EIT scores.

	SA (n = 9)		ELFSA (n = 24)
	M	SD	M	SD
Pre-EIT	70.33	24.49	81.29	24.81
Post-EIT	85.11	5.86	93.50	3.59

Table 2. Correlations for pre-departure EIT and post-CAF scores.

Measures	R	p
Fluency (Speech rate)* Pre-EIT + W/T	.550	.001
Fluency (Breakdown fluency) Pre-EIT + P/T	−0.33	.007
Fluency (Repair fluency) Pre-EIT + D/T	−0.25	.180
Accuracy Pre-EIT + ERR/ASU	−0.2	.289
Lexical diversity* Pre-EIT + VocD	.547	.001
Syntactic Complexity* Pre-EIT + CL/ASU	.444	.012

*Significant correlations

Table 3. Descriptive statistics for oral production data by proficiency group.

Oral production data		PRE (n = 13)		INT (n = 10)		UP (n = 10)
		M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Speech rate (W/T)	Pre-test	1.19	.337	1.64	.458	1.82	.341
	Post-test	1.55	.365	1.96	.456	2.10	.587
Breakdown fluency (P/T)^a	Pre-test	.428*	.188	.267	.121	.266	.090
	Post-test	.269*	.083	.207	.103	.205	.085
Repair fluency (D/T)	Pre-test	3.29	2.36	4.13	3.25	5.05	2.98
	Post-test	5.13	2.97	4.11	3.72	4.02	2.35
Accuracy (ERR/ASU)^b	Pre-test	.597	.332	.698*	.668	.251	.241
	Post-test	.334	.358	.257*	.124	.172	.175
Syntactic complexity (CL/ASU)	Pre-test	1.83	.639	2.70	.590	2.39*	.591
	Post-test	2.04	.801	2.20	.547	2.97*	.080
Lexical complexity (D)	Pre-test	29.86	16.7	40.14	10.9	40.56*	9.11
	Post-test	35.20	9.65	39.99	11.45	50.17*	11.49

^a A decrease in this score indicates fewer pauses.

^b A decrease in this score indicates more accurate production.

*The largest gains in comparison to other groups.