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Keijzer, Merel – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
In an attempt to explain first language attrition in emigrant populations, this paper investigates the explanatory power of a framework that has--until now--received little attention: the regression hypothesis (Jakobson, 1941). This hypothesis predicts that the order of attrition is the reverse of the order of acquisition. The regression…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Syntax, Systems Approach, Foreign Countries
Reeds, James A. – 1972
The relevance to elementary foreign language instruction of certain findings of child language development (native language) and the psychology of language acquisition is examined. A set of premises is proposed for a new scheme for the teaching of German based on these findings, namely, that comprehension precedes production, that language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Educational Research, German