Thursday, March 29, 2007

a late news flash on Fossilization...'Stabilization'

I have to agree with Brown (2007, p.261) that 'Fossilization' is a normal natural stage, and should not be viewed as a terminal illness. He suggests another term of 'stabilization', which is a much more positive term, as it allows room for balance and adjustment.
I believe, that L2 learners enter and exit many different kinds of situations throughout their interlanguage phase, and each new situation makes it possible for the learner to re-adjust. Of course the learner can choose not to change, or feel they can't change, but I essentially believe that it is possible. So the term I will glom onto is 'stabilization'. Steven Mondy

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Shelley Chapman said...

Hello, I just came upon your blog while looking for articles on fossilization. I'm an Australian residing in Mexico and teaching EFL at the National University's Language Centre. Could you let me know the full reference of Brown that you write about? I know he talks about stabilization, but a lot earlier than 2007 and I'm not familiar with that reference. Thanks.

While I'm at it, your earlier post of Fossilization 1 mentions the idea of people making excuses for their fossilized forms. There are also a lot of strategies people use to "cover up" their inadequacies of the language, which over time, I think, become stabilized/fossilized strategies in themselves. For example, when you have problems pronouncing a certain word of occasional frequency, you may begin attempting to pronounce the first syllables, then wait for the listener to prompt you with the rest of the word, to which you reply "Yes - that", without actually saying the word yourself.

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