Extramural English Matters : Out-of-School English and Its Impact on Swedish Ninth Graders' Oral Proficiency and Vocabulary

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Gaming as extramural English L2 learning and L2 proficiency among young learners* (2012, background): “With regard to EE, which is unrelated to school, previous research has shown that it is not connected with socioeconomic background variables, nor even with the educational level of the parents, at least not in a fairly modern and equal society such as Sweden (Sundqvist, 2009).”
The influence of exposure, parents, and linguistic distance on young European learners' foreign language comprehension (2013, background): “In a Swedish study of 15/16-year-olds, Sundqvist (2009) examined the effect of extramural English on oral proficiency and vocabulary.”
Motivation, Gender, and Possible Selves (2013, background): “Ever-increasingly acquired outside of school (Olsson, 2011; Sundqvist, 2009), it is highly implicated in the cultural practices of young people (Sundqvist & Sylvén, 2012) and a non dissociable part of the environments in which identities are created (Henry, 2013).”
CLIL in Sweden – why does it not work? A metaperspective on CLIL across contexts in Europe (2013, background): “The amount of exposure to the TL outside of school has been shown to correlate with a number of language skills (Cobb and Horst 2011; Kuppens 2010; Reinders 2012; Sundqvist 2009; Sylvén and Sundqvist 2012a).”