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http://dx.doi.org/10.22156/CS4SMB.2019.9.1.099

The Effects of Overseas Internships on Development of English Competence  

Cha, Mi-Yang (College of General Education, Namseoul University)
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Journal of Convergence for Information Technology / v.9, no.1, 2019 , pp. 99-104 More about this Journal
Abstract
In an attempt to shed light on the effects of overseas internships on foreign language development, this study investigated the differences in English compositions written by 10 Korean university students who joined an overseas internship program for 15 weeks. For data collection, the participants each wrote an English composition before and after the internship. Data collected was analyzed to discern differences in the two writings, and statistical analyses were carried out of the results. Results showed that the participants appeared to have attained lexical fluency, generating longer sentences embedded with multisyllabic, more diverse types, more complex and less redundant words in more complicated structures after the internship. This study revealed that overseas internships facilitated the growth of linguistic abilities. Korean SMEs need to enhance the global capacity of their human resources via overseas internships to strengthen their global competitiveness, apart from improving their industrial competencies such as productivity and product quality.
Keywords
SMEs; Global Competitiveness; Human Resources; Overseas Internship; English Competence;
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