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EXTRAMURAL ENGLISH ACTIVITIES AND INDIVIDUAL LEARNER DIFFERENCES the average age was 16.72 (SD=1.41). In terms of gender, 36.3% of the participants (n=118) was male, and 63.7% of the participants (n=207) was female. As for the different types of secondary school, 48.3% (n=157) attended grammar school, 33.2% (n=108) attended secondary vocational school, and 18.5% (n=60) went to vocational school. The different types of schools and the number of students attending them are summarized in Table 9. Table 9. The different types of secondary school participants attend School type Number of students (n) |Percentage of students (%) Grammar school 157 48.3% Secondary vocational school 108 33.2% Vocational school 60 18.5% All participants learned English as a Foreign Language at school, and the average time of learning English is 7.51 years (SD=2.84). On average, participants had 4.29 (SD=1.79) EFL lessons at school a week, and the average of grades they were given at the end of the year was 4.52 (SD=.65). As for the first foreign languages (L2) participants learned at school, most students learned English as their first foreign language (86.2%), 9.5% learned German, and only a small proportion learned French and Spanish as their first foreign language (4% and .3% respectively) (see Table 10). Table 10. The different first and second foreign languages participants learn at school | Number of students (n) | Percentage of students (%) First foreign language (L2) English 280 86.2 German 31 9.5 French 13 4.0 Spanish 1 3 Total 325 100 Second foreign language (L3) Does not learn a second foreign language at school 137 42.2 German 89 274 English 45 13.8 French 25 77 Spanish 15 16 Italian 8 25 Russian 6 18 Total 325 100 « 88 «
