Oral proficiency retention of L2 Chinese learners following study abroad

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dc.contributor.authorGuo, Rongrong
dc.contributor.authorChen, Junming
dc.contributor.funderFujian Provincial Federation of Social Sciences
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-07T14:33:01Z
dc.date.available2026-09-07T14:33:01Z
dc.date.issued2026-07-16
dc.description.abstractAbstract – This study examines L2 Chinese learners’ oral retention during the formal instruction at home (AH) context after a period of study abroad (SA). Specifically, it investigates oral developments of L2 Chinese learners in a six-month AH context following their return from ten-month SA. Participants were ten English-speaking undergraduate L2 Chinese learners at an Irish university. Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CAF) measures were employed to assess learners’ oral development, with seven metrics providing an in-depth performance evaluation. Data were collected at three time points: pre-SA (T1), post-SA (T2), and six months after returning to AH (T3). Analyses focused specifically on the T2–T3 period to examine the long-term retention of oral proficiency gains following SA. Results showed lexical diversity and syntactic subordination retention, while erosion was observed in fluency (e.g., increased silent pauses) and lexical sophistication. Such findings suggest that learners in the AH context tend to concentrate on learning vocabulary (diversity) and syntactic complexity at the expense of fluency, accuracy (Juan-Garau & Pérez-Vidal, 2007) and lexical sophistication.en
dc.description.sponsorshipFujian Provincial Federation of Social Sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100020783, FJ2025B109, Junming Chen
dc.description.versionpreprint
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dc.identifier.authororcidGuo, Rongrong§0009-0008-6051-2434
dc.identifier.authororcidChen, Junming
dc.identifier.citationGuo, R & Chen, J 2026, 'Oral proficiency retention of L2 Chinese learners following study abroad', Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 153-179. https://doi.org/10.1075/sar.25012.guo
dc.identifier.doi10.1075/sar.25012.guo
dc.identifier.endpage179
dc.identifier.issn2405-5522
dc.identifier.issued2
dc.identifier.journaltitleStudy Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0009-0008-6051-2434/work/226051089
dc.identifier.startpage153
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/19180
dc.identifier.volume11
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
dc.relation.urihttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105048658629
dc.rights© 2026, John Benjamins Publishing Company.
dc.rights.accessrightsopen access
dc.rights.uriunspecified
dc.statusPeer reviewed
dc.subjectL2 Chinese learners
dc.subjectAt-home context
dc.subjectOral retention
dc.subject[LanguageLiteratureCulture]
dc.titleOral proficiency retention of L2 Chinese learners following study abroaden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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