THE IMPACT OF OLS ON SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
THE IMPACT OF OLS ON SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Summary/Abstract: Within the larger context of the Monitor Model worked out by Krashen (1977), the paper under consideration is concerned with the importance of comprehensible input in Second Language Acquisition. Thus, the article is devoted to the impact comprehensible input has on the target learners’ production. The corpora are collected from Romanian informants (Military Technical Academy students) that joined ERASMUS+ intercultural mobilities abroad in various receiving countries. More precisely, the performance of the participants enrolled for online linguistic support (OLS) covering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) mainly, is thoroughly looked into to record the progress these outgoing subjects made from the placement test to final assessment in terms of linguistic competences pertaining to grammar, vocabulary, key-communicative phrases, reading and listening in English, French, Italian and Spanish as target languages. A statistical analysis also comes to reinforce linguistic progress or fall within the Second Language Acquisition model under consideration. The contribution to the paper consists in both the collection of data and the interpretative remarks regarding the current scientific findings that account for the respondents’ performance

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