Overview on Language Attrition Theory

DOI

10.2991/emcs-16.2016.380How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Overview; Language attrition; Affecting factors; Language teaching

Abstract

Language attrition refers to the loss of any language or any portion of a language by an individual or a speech community. It is often considered as the reverse process of language acquisition. Based on related literature analysis on language attrition at home and abroad, the paper gives an overview on the theoretical system of language attrition and deeply explores nine factors of affecting language attrition, that is, time of attrition, foreign language level before attrition, contact with attrition language, age, language acquisition mode, social emotional factors, reading and writing ability, target language and gender. Through the analysis of these nine factors, the author hopes to have a further understanding to language attrition, clarify the development direction and provides a theoretical basis for effective foreign language teaching.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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