LINGUIST List 5.998

Fri 16 Sep 1994

Sum: Fossilization in 2nd language acquisition

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1. "Nyongwa, Moses", summary

Dear Netters,
In mid august, I requested references on Fossilization in Second
Language Acquisition. I've received many reactions from you. Thanks
very much for your responses. This is the list of references I
got from these responses:

- washburn, Gay (1992), Fossilization in Second Language Acquisition,
 Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pensylvania.
- Selinker, Larry (1992), Language Transfer and Fossilization: The
 Multiple Effect Principle, Benjamins, Amsterdam.
- MacDonald, Marguerite-G.(1988), Fossilization and an Emerging
 Social Dialect, Lenguas-Modernas, Santiago, Chile.
- Ellis, Rod (1985), Understanding Second Language Acquisition, Oxford
 University Press, Oxford.
- Larsen-Freeman, Diane (1991), An Introduction to Second Language
 Acquisition Research, Longman, London.
- Pienemann, Manfred (1992), Teachability Theory, Language
 Acquisition Research Centre, The University of Sydney.
- Schachter, J. (1990), "On the Issue of Completeness in Second
 Language Acquisition", Second Language Research, 6(2); 93-124.

 Once more, thanks very much for those who have responded.

moses.