Abstract
Interlanguage fossilization represents a common phenomenon in Foreign/Second language acquisition. The current study attempted to investigate the students’ writing compositions to reveal if interlanguage fossilization occurred or not. A diagnostic test has been used to collect the data. A sample of this study was chosen randomly from 20 EFL students of the sixth year preparatory schools in the academic year (2023-2024). The findings of this study displayed that two kinds of interlanguage fossilization are found and achieved by students. Morphological fossilization and syntactical fossilization. Morphological fossilization contained (85.63%) and syntactical fossilization consisted of (14.37) %.Low English proficiency led students’ writing compositions to interlanguage fossilization. So, the students should be more a curate and active to develop their ability in learning English as a foreign language.
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Habeeb, Ammar Abdul Fattah
(2026)
"Investigating the interlanguage fossilization of English writing in foreign language acquisition,"
Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts: Vol. 6:
No.
3, Article 6.
Available at:
https://citeus.um.ac.id/jolla/vol6/iss3/6