Child second language attrition: a longitudinal case study

2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Tomiyama
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Attrition ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Second Language Attrition

Second Language Attrition: The Role of Motivation and Use

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Gardner ◽  
R. N. Lalonde ◽  
R. Moorcroft ◽  
F. T. Evers
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Attrition ◽  
Second Language Attrition

scholarly journals L2 Lexical Attrition and Vocabulary Re-learning in Three L1 English L2 Japanese Children

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Jenifer Larson-Hall ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Attrition ◽  
Japanese Children ◽  
Incubation Periods ◽  
Loss Of Contact ◽  
Second Language Attrition ◽  
L1 English ◽  
Savings Rates ◽  
Lexical Attrition

In this paper I review the evidence for the role of age in affecting second language attrition, and find it strongly supports a large difference in attrition around a breakpoint of age 8. I propose a Dynamic Attrition Model which posits that attrition sets in immediately upon the loss of contact with a language but the speed of loss differs depending on age. Three children who began their incubation periods at age 6, 8 and 10 are examined when they are re-exposed to Japanese 6 years later. All children showed strong savings rates but large losses to their L2 Japanese.

Is Second Language Attrition the Reversal of Second Language Acquisition?

1989 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elite Olshtain
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Instructional Program ◽  
Language Attrition ◽  
Dominant Language ◽  
Structural Rules ◽  
Second Languages ◽  
Input Variables ◽  
Second Language Attrition

The study of language attrition, whether it is concerned with first or second languages, focuses on the effects resulting from an individual's reduced use of the attrited language. Such reduction in use can be due to a change in the linguistic environment or to the termination of an instructional program. In either case, some other language (or languages) is or becomes the dominant one.The present article reports on a series of studies, all focusing on individual attrition of English as a second language (ESL) in an environment where Hebrew is the dominant language. The predictor variables discussed are age, sociolinguistic features, input variables, and linguistic variables. The attrition process affecting English as a second language in a Hebrew dominant context seems to exhibit two major trends of change in language use: (a) a greater variability in the application of peripheral and highly marked structural rules, and (b) lower accessibility of specific lexical items. In each of these trends one can identify a limited reversal of the acquisition process, particularly with young children (5–8-year-olds) as well as a typological transfer process from the dominant language.

scholarly journals Losing a language in childhood: a longitudinal case study on language attrition

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 562-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
CRISTINA FLORES
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Migration Background ◽  
Word Retrieval ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Language Loss ◽  
Language Attrition ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Loss Of Contact ◽  
German Data

ABSTRACTThis paper is based upon a longitudinal study of L2 attrition in a bilingual child who grew up in an L2 migration background (Germany) and moved to the country of origin (Portugal) at the age of nine, experiencing a dominance shift from theL2 tothe L1. The study aims to analyze the effects of language loss in L2 German. Data collection started 3 weeks after the child's immersion in the Portuguese setting and ended 18 months later. Results show first effects of language attrition after 5 months of reduced exposure to German; 18 months later the informant showed severe word retrieval difficulties and was unable to produce complete sentences in her L2. The findings thus confirm the conclusions of other studies on child language attrition, which attest to strong effects of attrition when the loss of contact with the target language occurs in childhood.

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