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.
First Page
369
Last Page
376
Recommended Citation
Habeeb, A.
(2026).
Investigating the interlanguage fossilization of English writing in foreign language acquisition.
Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts, 6(3), 369-376.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17977/um064v6i32026p369-376
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https://citeus.um.ac.id/jolla/vol6/iss3/6