Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Society

Overview on Language Attrition Theory

Authors
Feng He
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Feng He
Available Online January 2016.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Society
Series
Advances in Computer Science Research
Publication Date
January 2016
ISBN
10.2991/emcs-16.2016.380
ISSN
2352-538X
DOI
10.2991/emcs-16.2016.380How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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