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IJLLL 2023 Vol.9(6): 478-481
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.6.455

Literature Review on Language Attrition Causes: Word Frequency, and Identity and Belongings

Lan Y. Mao

Abstract—Language attrition is the phenomenon of degradation and forgetting of the learning outcomes of language learners. This paper focuses on analyzing the factors influencing the emergence of language attrition in language users and language learners by summarizing previous empirical and qualitative studies . It finds that the influencing factors are divided into two main categories, including intralinguistic and extralinguistic factors. The former refers mainly to word frequency and the latter mostly indicates people’s quest for identity and a sense of belonging. And In order to fully analyze the effects of these factors on linguistic attrition, the author respectively discusses the mother tongue attrition and the second language in the first language environment and also in the second environment. Therefore, language change is the result of a combination of multifaceted factors. So this finding can expand the study of language and put forward suggestions on language teaching reform.

Index Terms—Language attrition, word frequency, identity and belonging, language teaching

The authors are with Foreign Language College, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China. E-mail: OliviaMaoLL@163.com

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Cite:Lan Y. Mao, "Literature Review on Language Attrition Causes: Word Frequency, and Identity and Belongings," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 478-481, 2023.

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