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Against Comprehensible Input: The Input Hypothesis and the Development of Second-language Competence.

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White, Lydia – Applied Linguistics, 1987

Discusses several objections to Krashen's Input Hypothesis which states that language acquisition is the learners' understanding of a language at a stage slightly higher than their current one because of their understanding of extralinguistic cues of the language. (Author/LMO)

Descriptors: Child Language, Interference (Language), Interlanguage, Learning Theories

Child Language Attrition: A Longitudinal Case Study.

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Tomiyama, Machiko – Applied Linguistics, 2000

Examines the second stage of natural second language attrition in the first language environment observed in a Japanese male returnee child. The subject spent 7 years in the United States, was 8-years-old when he returned, and was highly proficient in English. The second stage is characterized by a period of change in syntax and morphology,…

Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries