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Foreign Language Attrition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

Kees de Bot and
Bert Weltens
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Compared to research on language acquisition, research on the maintenance and loss of language skills is a relatively recent development. There is, of course, a longstanding sociolinguistic tradition of research on language shift, but work in the field of attrition really started in the US in the late 1970s (Lambert and Freed 1982). Since then, research on language attrition has grown rapidly in different countries, as is witnessed by special issues devoted to the topic in the journals Applied Psycholinguistics in 1986, ITL-Review of Applied Linguistics in 1989 and Studies in Second Language Acquisition in 1989, as well as by three recent volumes: Weltens, de Bot and van Els (1986), Weltens (1989), and Seliger and Vago (1991).

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Language Acquisition and Attrition
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 15 , March 1995, pp. 151 - 164
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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