Lexical Maintenance and Attrition in Japanese as a Second Language

要旨

Abstract In recent years, researchers have shown increasing interest in the phenomenon of second language (L2) loss or attrition. A few of the issues that have been addressed in the literature include identification of the particular skills and subsystems of L2 that are lost, the order in which they are lost, the rates at which different skills are lost, the processes and variables affecting L2 loss, and the amount and timing of attrition.’ With the notable exceptions of Cohen (1986, 1989) and Olshtain (1986),

主題