fossilization
Fossilization is a phenomenon of great interest both to FL acquisition researchers and to language teachers. Fossilization is a process in which incorrect linguistic features become a permanent part a person speaks and writes in a language. We manage to get by in a foreign language, though we mostly nowhere approach the level of the native speaker. At some point along the way we fossilize, that is, our foreign language stops moving forwards, and 'sticks'or we reach a certain point of in our language development where we no longer continue to 'move towards'the standard base language.