A Study Of Interlanguage Fossilization In Chinese English Learners

Famous linguist Larry Selinker proposed the term of interlanguage in1972. It spoke of the independent systematic knowledge of language between the native language and the target language system which the second language learners are trying to learn. As a universal phenomenon in this field, interlanguage fossilization has become a big obstacle for second language learners to be successful in their language learning and acquisition. Specially, fossilization in oral English prevents L2learners from making further process. Oral communicative competence is an important part for language learners, so the author aims to discuss the fossilization and find out how to reduce and avoid fossilization of oral English.Fossilization appears in Chinese.college students’ English learning generally and has been a hot issue to be solved in English language teaching in China. On the basis of related interlanguage theory and previous studies, and through experiment and questionnaire investigation, the author makes the qualitative study of the fossilizable errors and fossilized phenomena. The error is made by the participants on the test in oral communication and from the phonological, lexical and syntactic levels respectively. Then the author makes an attempt to analyze the causes of oral fossilization of phenomenon and proposes some corresponding implication which can overcome the fossilization in oral English teaching. The thesis proposed the following implications and suggestions to overcome fossilization:avoidance of the first language interference, enhancement of the training of learning strategies, accumulation accurate and appropriate input, intensification of learning motivation and advancement of the effective feedback.The analysis and research on second language fossilization of this paper has a practical significance and provides us with helpful pedagogical implications on the English learning and teaching. It conduces to know more about characteristics of fossilization of college students’oral English, direct to arrange the reasonable teaching, improve the English teaching method and promote the development of college students’English.