[B-Greek] Attrition rates. Research?
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 01:11:01 EDT 2009
>As regards Greek, not on http://www.lara.ox.ac.uk/seclang.php
>But if you have ATHENS you may find the following useful in tracking down literature that is useful by comparison
PDF The Attrition of Foreign-Language Skills: A Literature Review
WELTENS Applied Linguistics.1987; 8: 22-36
http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/8/1/22
>That will be out of date - not including much of the work generated by Lynne Hansen and others regarding (in particular) Japanese-English and English-Japanese, but will include literature relating to grammar school classics teaching such as:
Kennedy, L. (1932) The retention of certain Latin syntactical
principles by first and second year Latin students after various time
intervals. Journal of Educational Psychology 23, 132-146.
>Steven Cox>
This is discussing two different kinds of attrition rate. 1. the rate
of dropout from
classes or use of the language. 2. the attrition of skills taught in a class.
On number 2, one of the amazing things about TPR (total physical response)
is its staying power with students. Attrition over summers ranges from
0 to 10%,
which is as low as it gets.
The real world would tend to back this up anecdotally since people have often
commented how a language that had been used in a spoken environment
comes back to that level very very fast.
ERRWSQE
Randall Buth
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