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Cha, Mi-yang. 2014. Syntactic Maturity in EFL Composition: A Case Study of an Overseas Language Program. Journal of Linguistic Studies 19(1), 127-150. The present study compares syntactic maturity in the English composition written by Korean university students. 54 participants were divided into two groups: 27 exchange students and 27 domestic students. While exchange students joined a 15-week overseas language program, domestic students took an English writing class in Korea during the same period. Pre- and post tests were undertaken, and five syntactic measures were employed for the analysis: words per T-unit, words per clause, clauses per T-unit, subordination ratio, and number of T-units. Each measure was analyzed to assess the differences between the groups before and after the treatment period, and statistical analyses followed. Results showed that students in both groups attained significant growth of syntactic maturity in writing, generating longer production units containing greater clausal density and more complex structural items after the treatment period. No significant differences were found in growth of syntactic maturity between the two groups after 15 weeks. It is unlikely that overseas language programs play a particularly distinctive role in developing syntactic maturity within a 15-week period. (Namseoul University)