Second language acquisition abroad [ the LDS missionary experience

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies devoted to missionary language learning and retention. Introductory chapters provide historical perspectives on this population and on language teaching philosophy and practice in the LDS tradition. The empirical studies which fo...

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Main Author: Hansen, Lynne , 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company , c2012
Series:Studies in bilingualism v. 45
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction : investigating mission languages -- 2. Language learning and teaching in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- 3. The development of speaking proficiency of LDS missionaries -- 4. An examination of the effects of input, aptitude, and motivation on the language proficiency of missionaries learning Japanese as a second language -- 5. In the beginning was the word : vocabulary learning in six mission languages -- 6. The lost word : vocabulary attrition in six mission languages -- 7. Vocabulary attrition in adult speakers of Spanish as a second language -- 8. Savings in the relearning of mission vocabulary : the effects of time and proficiency -- 9. What counts in the retention of numeral classifiers in Japanese and Chinese? -- 10. Syntactic attrition in L2 Japanese missionary language -- 11. The measurement of oral fluency in mission languages 
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