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Nakuma, Constancio – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Argues, with a theoretical focus, that evidence of cross-linguistic influences on language use can and ought to be enlisted in second language (L2) attrition research to clean up "spontaneous speech data." Notes that since L2 attrition researchers have little control over the content of the spontaneous speech data they use, they need the…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Skill Attrition, Language Usage, Linguistic Borrowing