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The number of Korean study-abroad children has increased in the past decade, on the assumption that studying abroad is one of the most effective ways to become proficient in another language. This research compares the linguistic features of argumentative writing in Korean EFL middle school students who studied abroad and those who had only formal classroom lessons in Korea. It also examines the relationship between the linguistic features and writing proficiency. Sixty-five middle school students (N = 65) participated in this study and their compositions were coded for lexical richness, syntactic complexity, grammatical accuracy, fluency, cohesion, and written discourse features. The results show that the study-abroad group outperformed the group of students who stayed in Korea in fluency and the use of written discourse features. However, there were no significant differences in lexical richness, syntactic complexity, grammatical accuracy, and cohesion. Furthermore, the results from multiple regression analysis indicate that text length, error-free T-unit ratio, and academic word list words could be a significant predictor of the variance of writing scores of both groups. These findings have important pedagogical implications for EFL writing.

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I. Introduction
 II. Literature Review
  1. Linguistic Development in Study-Abroad vs. At-home Contexts
  2. Linguistic Features on Writing Proficiency
 III. Method
  1. Subjects
  2. Procedures
  3. Categories of Analysis
  4. Reliability of the Coding
  5. Writing Evaluation-Holistic Writing Score
 IV. Results
  1. Summary of Practice TOEFL and Writing Scores
  2. The Difference of Linguistic Features between SA and AH
  3. Relationship among Writing Scores, Language Proficiency and Linguistic Features
 V. Discussion and Conclusions
  1. Research Question 1: How are linguistic features different in Korean SA and AH group students' English argumentative writing?
  2. Research Question 2 : What is the relationship between linguistic features and English writing proficiency in SA and AH groups?
 VI. Suggestions and Implications
 Works Cited
 Appendix. Coding Scheme
 Abstract

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저자

• Lee, Jung Soo [ 이정수 | Korea University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810