Brussels Corpus
Learners
Five (state secondary) schools participated in this pilot study, selected
from various parts of Flanders. Care was taken that none of the schools were
located within the immediate catchment area of the officially bilingual yet
predominantly Francophone capital district of Brussels, or near the French-Dutch
linguistic border separating the monolingual Dutch-speaking region of Flanders
from the monolingual French-speaking region of Wallonia.
A total of 150 6th year secondary students (age 18) from the Modern Language
section participated in the study, though only 125 completed all the components
of the test battery. All students had had the same amount
of curricular contact with English and French at the time of testing.