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ELT Journal 1992 46(2):180-189; doi:10.1093/elt/46.2.180
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Defossilizing

Helen Johnson

Helen Johnson is Senior Lecturer in English at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. She has an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University ofReading. She has worked as a teacher of EFL in France, Sweden, Denmark, and the United Kingdom, and as a teacher trainer and lecturer in ELT in Kuwait, North Yemen, and at Ealing College of Higher Education in London. During the last two summers she has run her own course in 'English For Music', a specialized language course aimed at foreign students and teachers of music.

The aim of this article is to consider what can be done for intermediate students of the sort we might entitle ‘fluent-but-fossilized’, in other words, people whose communicative ability is rather high, but whose accuracy is poor and showing no signs of improving. The assumed relationship within communicative language teaching between communicating and learning is explored and methodological modifications are proposed for attempting to ensure that the communicative phase of a lesson counteracts rather than reinforces fossilization.


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