Sometimes I Feel As If There's A Big Hole In My Head Where English Used To Be! Attrition Of L1 English  

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Dostert, Susan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 8 no. 3 (Sep. 2004), page 383-387.
Topik: communication; English; input; L1 attrition; native speaker
Fulltext: 383.pdf (124.85KB)

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“Sometimes I feel as if there’s a big hole in my head where English used to be” is a remark typical of those native speakers who have been living in a foreign country for some time with reduced or even nonexistent opportunities to communicate in their L1. The title of Tom Ammerlaan’s Ph.D. dissertation on L1 attrition: “You get a bit wobbly …” (Ammerlaan, 2000) expresses this same awareness that something is not quite right with the speaker’s native tongue. Despite such comments documenting the fact that after some years in an L2 environment many speakers tend to experience some degree of difficulty when forced to communicate solely in their L1 (rather than codeswitching for example), previous studies have not always found evidence of L1 attrition. De Bot & Clyne (1994), for example, found no sign of attrition in their study of Dutch immigrants in Australia, even though some of their informants had been living in the L2 environment for at least 25 years. Other researchers studying the attrition of German as first language in an English spoken setting, such as Waas (1997), Gross (2002), or Kipp (2002), on the other hand, did find clear signs of attrition in the L1 of their subjects.

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