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Part 1 Introduction: Language Learning and Study Abroad, Barbara F.Freed. Part 2 Predicting and Measuring Language Gains in Study AbroadSettings: Predictors of Foreign Language Gain During Study Abroad, Richard D.Brecht, Dan E. Davidson and Ralph B. Ginsberg; A Canadian InterprovincialExchange - Evaluating the Linguistic Impact of a Three-Month Stay in Quebec,Sharon Lapkin, Doug Hart and Merrill Swain; Part 3 Comparison Studies:Getting Into, Through and Out of a Situation - A Comparison of CommunicativeStrategies Used by Students Studying Spanish Abroad and "At Home", Barbara A.Lafford; What Makes Us Think That Students Who Study Abroad Become Fluent?,Barbara F. Freed; The Peace Corps Experience - Language Learning in Trainingand in the Field, Gail Guntermann; The Effects of Overseas LanguageProgrammes- Report on a Case Study of an Intensive Japanese Course, ThomHuebner. Part 4 Sociolinguistic Studies: The Acquisition of PolitenessPatterns by Exchange Students in Japan, Helen Marriott; IndividualDifferences and Study Abroad - Women Learning Japanese in Japan, MerylSiegal; The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Native Speech Norms - Effects of aYear Abroad on Second Language Learners of French, Vera Regan. Part 5 DiaryStudies: Language Learning and Living Abroad - Stories from the Field, LiviaPolanyi; Folklinguistic Theories of Language Learning, Laura Miller and RalphB. Ginsberg; On the Value of Formal Instruction in Study Abroad - StudentReactions in Context, Richard D. Brecht and Jennifer L Robinson.