Second Language Acquisition Abroad

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The LDS Missionary Experience

Lynne Hansen(Editor)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Published on 15. February 2012

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Second Language Acquisition Abroad
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Foreword
Chapter 1 - Introduction
1. The missionaries and their language learning experience
2. Overview of this volume
3. Conclusion
References
Section I. Acquisition of mission languages
Chapter 2 - Language learning and teaching in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1. Introduction
2. Language and Learning in the Early Days of the Church
3. Development of the Deseret Alphabet
4. Immigrant Language Learning
5. Early Missionary language learning
7. Approach to Language Teaching in the LTM and MTC
8. Missionary Language Achievement Before and After the Mission
9. Language Maintenance and Language Attrition Among Returned Missionaries
References
Chapter 3 - The development of speaking proficiency of LDS missionaries
1. Missionary language learning experience
2. Language acquisition considerations
3. Speaking proficiency assessment
4. Methodology
5. Results
6. Comparisons with Undergraduate Students
7. Discussion
8. Conclusion
References
Chapter 4 - An examination of the effects of input, aptitude, and motivation on the language proficiency of missionaries learning Japanese as a second language
1. Individual differences
2. Language learning aptitude
3. Motivation
4. Input
5. Research questions
6. Methodology
6.1 Participants
6.2 Procedures
6.3 Proficiency measures
7. Aptitude
8. Input
9. Results
9.1 Characteristics of the participants
10. Time in Japan
11. Proficiency levels
12. Motivation
13. Language aptitude and working memory
14. A more complete regression model
15. Discussion
References
Appendix A
Part I: Background information
Part 2. Language usage questions
Appendix B Appendix of statistical procedures
Robust correlation
Hierarchical cluster modeling
Regression
Appendix C
Appendix D Selected data
Chapter 5 - In the beginning was the word
1. Input
2. Language distance
3. Gender
4. Motivation, attitudes, and beliefs about language learning
5. Research questions
6. Method
6.1 Subjects
7. Instruments and data collection
7.1 L2 vocabulary elicitation
7.2 Survey
8. Findings
8.1 L2 input and vocabulary acquisition over time
9. Language distance
10. Gender
11. Affective variables
11.1 Regression analysis
12. Discussion
13. Future research
References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Survey
Section II. Attrition of mission languages
Chapter 6 - The lost word
1. Introduction
1.1 Vocabulary attrition in mission languages
1.2 Second language input
2. Language distance
2.1 Gender
2.2 Motivation, attitudes, beliefs
3. Research questions
4. Method
4.1 Subjects
5. Instruments and data collection
5.1 Survey
5.2 L2 vocabulary elicitation
6. Findings
6.1 L2 input and vocabulary attrition over time
7. Language distance
8. Gender
9. Affect variables
10. Replication of the acquisition study regression
11. Discussion
References
Appendix I
Chapter 7 - Vocabulary attrition in adult speakers of Spanish as a second language
1. Introduction
2. Purpose of this study
3. Method
3.1 Participants
3.2 Instruments
3.3 Procedures
3.4 Data treatment and analysis
4. Results
4.1 An overview
4.2 Differences in individual subject backgrounds
4.3 Vocabulary loss by category
5. Form
5.1 Words whose forms were not retrievable - Category 110
5.2 English substitutions - Category 111
5.3 Phonetic alterations - Category 112
5.4 Morphological changes - Category 120
5.5 Form and meaning - Category 210
6. Grammatical constraints
6.1 Tense and Aspect - Categories 313 and 314
6.2 Aspect - Category 314
6.3 Mood - Category 315
6.4 Gender - Category 312
6.5 Articles - Category 310
6.6 Subject-Verb agreement - Category 311
6.7 Clitic pronouns - Category 316
6.8 Collocations with grammatical morphemes - Category 320
7. Summary and conclusions
References
Appendix A
A story retelling task performance by four subjects at times 1 and 4
Chapter 8 - Savings in the relearning of mission vocabulary
1. Introduction
2. Language acquisition and attrition
3. Language relearning
4. The savings paradigm applied to vocabulary relearning
5. Methods
5.1 Subjects
5.2 Instruments and data collection
6. Results
7. Discussion
7.1 Savings potency
7.2 Time elapsed since departure from L2 milieu
7.3 Group differences
7.4 Individual differences: The rich get richer
chapter 9 - What counts in the retention of numeral classifiers in Japanese and Chinese?
1. Introduction
2. Numeral classifier systems
3. Acquisition of numeral classifiers
3.1 The regression hypothesis
4. Method
4.1 Subjects and data collection
4.2 Elicitation instruments
4.3 Calculating suppliance
5. Results
5.1 Acquisition and attrition stages
5.2 Sequences of semantic accessibility in acquisition and attrition
5.3 Language universals and markedness
5.4 Frequency in input
5.5 Regression hypothesis
6. Discussion
References
Appendix
Chapter 10 - Syntactic attrition in L2 Japanese missionary language
1. Introduction
2. Purpose
3. Background
4. Research questions
4.1 Particle accuracy
4.2 Syntactic complexity
4.3 Syntactic variety
4.4 formal instruction
5. Method
5.1 Subjects
5.2 Data collection and analysis
6. Results and discussion
6.1 Previous lexical and syntactic attrition studies - Two-year period
6.2 Syntactic attrition - Ten years later
6.3 Effects of formal instruction
7. Conclusion
Appendix A
Statistical tables
Appendix B
Different Types of Subordinate Clauses Used
Appendix C
Transcribed Speech Sample
Chapter 11 - The measurement of oral fluency in mission languages
1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1 Subjects
2.2 Instruments and data collection
2.3 Analysis of hesitation phenomena
3. Results
4. Summary and discussion of L2 Japanese findings
5. Future measurement of oral fluency
References
Comprehensive bibliography of mission language references: Annotated
Comprehensive bibliography of mission language references: Unannotated
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