Abstract:“Fossilization” was first put forward by Selinker. It refers to a phenomenon which   Second Language Learners tend to cease to make improvements or even fall behind when they reach a certain level in the process of learning second language. In order to explore fossilization among Non-English majors in China, this paper chooses Non-English majors in Nanjing Xiaozhuang University as subjects. By analyzing 22 English abstracts written by Non-English majors who graduated in 2008, this paper tries to expound Chinese non-English major graduates’ fossilization and put forward several strategies in acquiring second language.

Key words: language fossilization; Non-English majors; abstract writing

CONTENTS

Abstract

中文摘要

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 2

3. Methodology 4

  3.1 Subjects

  3.2 Instruments

  3.3 Data Collection

4. Discussion about the Results 5

  4.1 Results

  4.2 Menifestation of Fossilization

    4.2.1 Lexical Fossilization

    4.2.2 Grammatical Fossilization

5.Measures of Defossilization8

    5.1 External Strategies

    5.2 Internal Strategies

6.Conclusion 9

 Bibliograhy.11

Acknowledgements12