1st Edition

Language Attrition among Immigrant Teachers of Spanish

By Ivonne Lerner Copyright 2025
222 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Language Attrition among Immigrant Teachers of Spanish is the first book devoted entirely to Spanish language attrition in all language areas and specifically among language professionals. Based on original research awarded the ASELE-Routledge prize in 2022, this volume presents an interdisciplinary and pioneering study on native language attrition among Spanish L1 immigrants in Israel,... Read more

PART I. Why study language attrition?

Introduction

1. Language attrition: what, when, who and why?

2. Israel: a case-study

PART II. The research

3. Measuring attrition

4. The study

PART III. Insights and implications

5. Discussion of findings

6. Conclusions

Epilogue

Biography

Ivonne Lerner is a Spanish instructor and teacher trainer at the Cervantes Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel, and a researcher.