Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Section I Acquisition of mission languages
6. Chapter 2. Language learning and teaching in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 13
7. Chapter 3. The development of speaking proficiency of LDS missionaries 29
8. Chapter 4. An examination of the effects of input, aptitude, and motivation on the language proficiency of missionaries mearning Japanese as a second language 51
9. Chapter 5. In the beginning was the word 89
10. Section II Attrition of mission languages
11. Chapter 6. The lost word 111
12. Chapter 7. Vocabulary attrition in adult speakers of Spanish as a second language 135
13. Chapter 8. Savings in the relearning of mission vocabulary 185
14. Chapter 9. What counts in the retention of numeral classifiers in Japanese and Chinese? 203
15. Chapter 10. Syntactic attrition in L2 Japanese missionary language 221
16. Chapter 11. The measurement of oral fluency in mission languages 245
17. Comprehensive bibliography of mission language references: Annotated 259
18. Comprehensive bibliography of mission language references: Unannotated 263
19. Index 267