The Challenge of Preaching in a Second Language

Abstract

Preaching is hard work. Preaching in a second language is harder still. By looking at generalities about the preaching process, at the complications added by the difficulties of a second language, and at insights gleaned from surveys both of second-language preachers and of a second-language audience, this essay seeks to prove that the exercise of preaching in a second language develops in the preacher skills for preaching in any language.