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Although there probably has been language attrition as long as there has been language acquisition and language teaching, research on this phenomenon is mostly of a recent date. In the history of foreign language teaching, complaints about non-acquisition abound, but it is not clear from the reports to what extent what had been learnt at some point was actually lost or simply not acquired.
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De Bot, K. (1997). Language Attrition. In: Tucker, G.R., Corson, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4419-3_6
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