FOSSILIZATION, COMMUNICATIVE RATIONALITY AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING
Journal: RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics (Vol.10, No. 2)Publication Date: 2019-09-20
Authors : Zhanna Vavilova; John Broadbent;
Page : 522-531
Keywords : Fossilization; Second language learning; Communicative rationality; Communication strategies; Speech acts theory;
Abstract
Fossilization was first defined in 1972 as a failure, or an ultimate attainment in adult second language acquisition that falls short of native-speaker competence. It represents a final stage in the interlanguage development of the individual learner and characterizes all but a very few adult second language learners. Over the 40 years or so since the term appeared, fossilization in adult second language acquisition has come to be widely accepted by scholars as a genuinely existing phenomenon. Fossilization is now viewed as permanent and resistant to correction either through instruction or acculturation. However, no universally accepted definition or explanation of fossilization has achieved universal acceptance. This paper attempts to add an extralinguistic perspective on fossilization and its possible outcome in the communicative practice of adult L2 speakers by building a bridge between linguistics and teaching languages, on the one hand, and philosophy of communication, on the other. Habermasian concept of communicative rationality is applied to demonstrate that oratory and writing skills ensure a more significant role in a dialogue, which seems to be sufficient grounds for fighting fossilization. In terms of the theory of speech acts, the paper attempts to trace the mechanism of fossilizing in a transition from the inner space of an individual consciousness and intent (illocution) to the outer space of the perlocutionary consequence when a locutionary distortion of the speech itself does not affect the speaker’s intent and he / she receives no feedback of the error made. Several factors inhibiting the effectiveness of such corrective feedback are touched upon, as well as certain strategies adopted by second language learners in their communicative efforts.
Other Latest Articles
- THE KAZAKH LANGUAGE HAS THE ASPECT CATEGORY IN ITS MATRIX
- US-VERSUS-THEM POLARIZATION IN THE US PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES OF 2000
- THE CHURCH SEPARATION OF THE XVII CENTURY AS “NAMEEEEE” CONTENT: PRESENTATION OF THE PROBLEM OF COGNOMINAL EVENTS IN THE CULTURE (on the Material of Texts of the First Half of the Seventeenth Century)
- NOMINATION AS THE PRINCIPAL AXIS OF PUSHKIN’S THOUGHT
- CLASSIFICATION OF PREPOSITIONS OF STORY GENRE AS A WORK OF FICTION (on Material of A.S. Pushkin’s Story “The Queen of Spades” in Russian and English)
Last modified: 2020-08-14 07:47:39