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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/What exactly does it mean to study a foreign language? Certainly it does not mean analysing its grammatical structure or dealing with its formal aspects only, but, moreover, foreign language study broadens one's knowledge of culture, literature, history, political and social life of the country, or countries, in which a given language is spoken. Such a knowledge contributes to the development of one's general knowledge of the world, and, therefore, to create his or her own vision of reality, built upon viewing it from different sides.