Table of contents
Foreword
Chapter 1. Introduction: Investigating mission languages
Section I Acquisition of mission languages
Chapter 2. Language learning and teaching in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Chapter 3. The development of speaking proficiency of LDS missionaries
Chapter 4. An examination of the effects of input, aptitude, and motivation on the language proficiency of missionaries mearning Japanese as a second language
Chapter 5. In the beginning was the word: Vocabulary learning in six mission languages
Section II Attrition of mission languages
Chapter 6. The lost word: Vocabulary attrition in six mission languages
Chapter 7. Vocabulary attrition in adult speakers of Spanish as a second language
Chapter 8. Savings in the relearning of mission vocabulary: The effects of time and proficiency
Chapter 9. What counts in the retention of numeral classifiers in Japanese and Chinese?
Chapter 10. Syntactic attrition in L2 Japanese missionary language
Chapter 11. The measurement of oral fluency in mission languages
Comprehensive bibliography of mission language references: Unannotated
Comprehensive bibliography of mission language references: Annotated
Index
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