Adolescent Language Learners on a Three-Month Exchange: Insights from Their Diaries.

Examines diaries kept by 18 anglophone high-school students of French while they spent 3 months in Quebec as part of an exchange program. Research focused on insights into language-learning process provided by student diarists; affective factors in language learning; extralinguistic benefits of exchange; and ways in which the diaries supplement other data, such as tests and questionnaires. (Author/JL)