This study investigates the fossilization and defossilization in the developing interlanguage of ESL students. The subjects were a group of 13 Japanese SL learners who studied at a U. S. University in an exchange program during 1994-95. The students' use of copula, auxiliaries, morphemes and syntactic structures was examined to see the degree to which there were interlanguage changes during the period. A close examination of SL production in form-focused contexts indicates that fossilized errors are more likely to occur when a number of particular conditions are not satisfied, involving a relatively automatized system of conveying meaning, an easy control of topic and a high degree of understanding of the target linguistic structure. / Department of English
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/185690 |
| Date | January 1996 |
| Creators | Hirase, Yuka |
| Contributors | Ball State University. Dept. of English., Ely, Christopher M. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | iii, 87 leaves ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
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