After introducing the serious linguistic phenomenon of fossilization, clarifying terms and providing recommendations, the author makes an attempt to expound the various potential causes for fossilized errors from the ...After introducing the serious linguistic phenomenon of fossilization, clarifying terms and providing recommendations, the author makes an attempt to expound the various potential causes for fossilized errors from the biological, social-affective, cultural, cognitive, pedagogical and environmental perspectives and, in addition, suggests the relevance for EFL education in China and some ways of preventing the occurrence of fossilized errors. The paper is concerned with questions of etiology, rather than questions of ontology, so the focus of the paper is on the causal factors for fossilized errors in the interlanguage, including learner-specific factors and non learner-specific factors, such as biological, affective, language transfer, pedagogical, social and ideological culture, and environmental factors. It is proposed that prevention of fossilization is more significant than de-fossilization.展开更多
文摘After introducing the serious linguistic phenomenon of fossilization, clarifying terms and providing recommendations, the author makes an attempt to expound the various potential causes for fossilized errors from the biological, social-affective, cultural, cognitive, pedagogical and environmental perspectives and, in addition, suggests the relevance for EFL education in China and some ways of preventing the occurrence of fossilized errors. The paper is concerned with questions of etiology, rather than questions of ontology, so the focus of the paper is on the causal factors for fossilized errors in the interlanguage, including learner-specific factors and non learner-specific factors, such as biological, affective, language transfer, pedagogical, social and ideological culture, and environmental factors. It is proposed that prevention of fossilization is more significant than de-fossilization.
