Stabilization and Fossilization in Interlanguage Development

The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 487-535

  Long, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Fossilization; Interlanguage development; Language learners; Second language acquisition; Stabilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955390447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756492.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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