"De-fossilizing” Fossilization in Foreign Language Teaching
Keywords:
foreign language teaching, communicative competence, fossilization, error, mistakeAbstract
The paper particularly addresses the foreign language teaching categories fossilization, error, mistakes and communicative competence, exploring and connecting them towards further construal of their nature, occurrence, frequency, relation with other terms, and setting forth experience-based tips to “de-fossilize” fossilization in classroom and after-classroom dynamics. To attain this, methods such as analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction and abstraction-concretion were used. The analyses made and the suggestions offered are conducive to an understanding of the issue and to better communicative competence in the students.
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