<Original>L2 Attrition & Maintenance Observed in Japanese Returnee Students in Terms of Productive Oral Proficiency
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概要
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This study explores the linguistic attributes of L2 language attrition & retention of Japanese returnee high school students from English speaking countries in terms of their productive speaking skills. The particular linguistic aspects looked at were the total number of words, TTR, fluency/dysfluency and complexity rates in oral story-telling, using "Frog, where are you?" The data, along with the subjects' language bio-data, were analysed and discussed in light of 2 research questions: (a) Does attrition take place even when the returnee children stay in touch with English in only 5 one-hour long lessons a week? (b) The longer the period of the time after leaving an English speaking country, is more attrition observed? The results indicate that oral story-telling skills improve most in the fourth year back. Thus the subjects who have acquired the threshold level of English do not seem to suffer from attrition for at least several years after returning to their home-land, Japan.
- 福井大学の論文
- 2001-12-21