A Study on the Long-Term Retention of Foreign Language (Spanish)

question 83

Multiple Choice

A study on the long-term retention of foreign language (Spanish) learned in high school in individuals who are elderly found that

• A) most elderly did not even recall having taking a foreign language in high school.
• B) a few individuals recalled having had a class in a foreign language in high school but could recall no content from the course.
• C) many individuals recalled having had a class in a foreign language in high school and a small percent had retained some vocabulary.
• D) not only did the individuals recall the foreign language courses, but as much as half of the vocabulary was retained nearly 50 years later.

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