Language Attrition among Immigrant Teachers of Spanish

Based on original research awarded the ASELE-Routledge prize in 2022, 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.

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

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