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Wei, Xueping – English Language Teaching, 2008
Since the phenomenon of fossilization in interlanguage is proposed by Selinker in 1972, it has drawn much attention and commonly acknowledged at home and abroad. This paper introduces the definition, classification, presentation, and causal factors of fossilization in an attempt to help Chinese students better understand the phenomenon and avoid…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Problems, Interlanguage, Classification