Relational Language Acquisition: The Foundation for Global Kingdom Language Learners

Enoch Wan and Karen Hedinger. Kingdom workers are to begin with acquiring new language and later its mastery for cross-cultural ministry (“CCM”). One of the keys to fruitful CCM is language competence for communication, evangelism, and discipleship cross-culturally. The purpose of this article is to propose a language acquisition foundation for global Kingdom workers that integrates “relational realism” with self-directed adult language learning. We are calling this foundation an “ecology” [i.e. an interconnected environment] because Relational Language Acquisition (RLA) is the context where various language learning approaches, methods, and techniques can be used. (Pages 23 to 31)

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