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The Role of Environment in Language Learning: Swedish inside and outside of Sweden

Learning a new language as an adult is both rewarding and exciting, but it also comes with many challenges. This presentation concentrates on the role of environment for learning a second language. In particular, I draw on the results from the research project Swedish inside and outside Sweden (HÃkansson & Norrby 2010) where we collected longitudinal data in two comparable university student groups.