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Woodworth, Margot Bobgan.

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The role of spirituality in language learning among Latin American missionaries.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The role of spirituality in language learning among Latin American missionaries./
Author:	Woodworth, Margot Bobgan.
Description:	226 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-04A(E).
Subject:	Foreign language education. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3738413
ISBN:	9781339287546

The role of spirituality in language learning among Latin American missionaries.
Woodworth, Margot Bobgan.

The role of spirituality in language learning among Latin American missionaries. - 226 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Biola University, 2015.

Latin American evangelical/Pentecostal churches are experiencing phenomenal growth and are increasingly sending cross-cultural workers/missionaries to diverse places and people groups to share the gospel. These workers respond to a perceived spiritual call and spiritual need. Most workers must learn one or more languages, under varied circumstances, in order to fulfill their purpose in the new culture.

ISBN: 9781339287546Subjects--Topical Terms:

3172512
Foreign language education.

The role of spirituality in language learning among Latin American missionaries.
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520 $a This investigation examined the role of spirituality in language learning for 21 spiritually motivated workers, or Language Learners for Spiritual Purposes (LLSPs, as coined in this study), specifically focusing on spirituality's role in their language learning beliefs, motivation, identity, agency, strategies, and interaction. Through guided interviews centered on language learning stories, a theory emerged regarding spirituality's role in language learning for the participants and potentially other learners who share participants' spiritual purpose.
520 $a The theory proposes that Latin American missionaries perceive their spiritual call as a core and catalyst for their language learning for spiritual purposes. First, belief in a spiritual call forms the core of Latin American missionaries' motivation, identity, and agency in language learning. Second, belief in a spiritual call, with corollary beliefs regarding motivation, identity, and agency, forms a catalyst for implementation of language learning strategies and intentional community interaction, leading to language growth. An accompanying tree-shaped model illustrates the relationship of principle themes to the theory, reflecting an organic nature of continued growth with spirituality permeating throughout.
520 $a The study contributes understanding to the second language acquisition field where research on spirituality and language learning is scarce and where learners' stories can elucidate how learners perceive and navigate the language learning journey. With participants from 10 sending countries, who have worked in 20 countries and learned 17 languages, the study also gives voice to a sparsely investigated group of learners, non-Western missionaries who have learned languages other than (or in addition to) English. The study contributes insight for language learners and teachers, including missionary trainers, especially those holding a spiritually inclined worldview or at least recognizing spirituality's integral role in human life and experience.
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