Abstract:“Fossilization” was first put forward by Selinker. It refers to a phenomenon which Second Language Learners tend to cease to make improvements or even fall behind when they reach a certain level in the process of learning second language. In order to explore fossilization among Non-English majors in China, this paper chooses Non-English majors in Nanjing Xiaozhuang University as subjects. By analyzing 22 English abstracts written by Non-English majors who graduated in 2008, this paper tries to expound Chinese non-English major graduates’ fossilization and put forward several strategies in acquiring second language.
Key words: language fossilization; Non-English majors; abstract writing
CONTENTS
Abstract
中文摘要
1. Introduction 1
2. Literature Review 2
3. Methodology 4
3.1 Subjects
3.2 Instruments
3.3 Data Collection
4. Discussion about the Results 5
4.1 Results
4.2 Menifestation of Fossilization
4.2.1 Lexical Fossilization
4.2.2 Grammatical Fossilization
5.Measures of Defossilization8
5.1 External Strategies
5.2 Internal Strategies
6.Conclusion 9
Bibliograhy.11
Acknowledgements12
