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Language Attrition in Bilingual Children: Implications for Early Foreign Language Teaching

The article gives a brief overview of the language attrition research as a primarily psycholinguistic phenomenon studied within disciplines of second language acquisition (SLA) and bilingualism. An example of first language attrition within the overall development of Croatian (L1) – English (L2) childhood bilingualism is presented. On the basis of the research findings, implications are drawn for the process of early foreign language teaching.

language attrition, childhood bilingualism, early foreign language teaching

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