Investigating the Interlanguage Fossilization of English writing in Foreign Language Acquisition
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https://doi.org/10.17977/um065.v6.i2.2026.11Keywords:
Foreign language acquisition, Fossilization, Interlanguage, WritingAbstract
Interlanguage fossilization represents a common phenomenon in Foreign/Second language acquisition. The current study attempted to investigate the students’ writing compositions to reveal if interlanguage fossilization occurred or not. A diagnostic test has been used to collect the data. A sample of this study was chosen randomly from 20 EFL students of the sixth year preparatory schools in the academic year (2023-2024). The findings of this study displayed that two kinds of interlanguage fossilization are found and achieved by students. Morphological fossilization and syntactical fossilization. Morphological fossilization contained 85.63% and syntactical fossilization consisted of 14.37%. Low English proficiency led students’ writing compositions to interlanguage fossilization. So, the students should be more a curate and active to develop their ability in learning English as a foreign language.References
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