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The (de-) fossilization diaries
Fossilization: Selinker (1972) noted that most L2 learners fail to reach target-language competence. That is, they stop learning while their internalized rule system contains rules different from those...
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Some background
I was 36 when I arrived in Barcelona, a relatively late-starter in terms of second language learning, and with a poor track record to boot. Moreover, I had an English-speaking partner, so (unlike the...
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Fossilization: is it terminal, doctor?
Cartoon displayed with special permission from Glasbergen.com If there were ever to be an SLA ‘Hall of Fame’, prime candidates would be Alberto and Wes, both of them icons of fossilization, each in...
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Fatal attractors
Me, in a pastelería (cake shop) ¿Qué es eso? ¿Cuál? Ese pastel, allí. Tarta de manzana. ¿Y aquella aquí… ¿Qué lleva? Crema. Si, quiero una de este. Which translates, more or less, as: What is that?...
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