Continuities and discontinuities in L2 exposure among returnees: How plausible is a clean break with English or German after return?

Treffers-Daller, Jeanine; Alraddadi, Hadil

doi:10.1075/lab.25081.tre

Commentary published In: Epistemological issue: What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation
Edited by Matthew T. Carlson and Jorge González Alonso
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 16:1] 2026
► pp. 85–89

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Continuities and discontinuities in L2 exposure among returnees

How plausible is a clean break with English or German after return?

Jeanine Treffers-Daller | University of Reading

Hadil Alraddadi | University of Reading | Taibah University

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Published online: 28 November 2025

https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.25081.tre

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