The First Stage of Second Language Attrition: A Case Study of a Japanese Returnee

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Abstract Despite a short history of language attrition as a field of linguistic research, we have witnessed new insights being accumulated, hypotheses being generated, and evidence and counter evidence being provided. However, as young a field as it is and the methodological paths to the inquiry being multifold, many areas still remain basically unexplored. The present study is devoted to one such area, namely, a longitudinal study-in a genuine sense, of natural second language (L2 English) attrition within an individual in the first language (LI Japanese) environment.

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