OVERCOMING FOSSILIZED GRAMMAR ERRORS IN THE PROCESS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AQUISITION

Abstract

The article deals with a problem of fossilized errors in the oral speech of those who study the English language, offering various ways of overcoming these acquisition difficulties. Such kind of errors occur persistently in learners’ speech, and in spite of existing conventional opinions showing that any attempts to overcome fossilized errors result in failure, no matter how much explanation or correction is made, still there is an actual opportunity of their identification and further eradication if the efficient combination of methods aimed at solving this problem is applied. Throughout fostering the right approach towards such fossilized errors, establishing favorable learning environment as well as reaching necessary balance between fluency and accuracy, along with efficient and meaningful feedback provided on the teacher’s side, these grammatically, lexically or phonetically erroneous and seemingly ’rooted’ forms can be eradicated. The outcome will be an enhanced level of communication in the English language and higher communicational motivation.