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| | Interlanguage & Fossilization |
 | | At any one time, the interlanguage may include several competing hypotheses, so that the speaker's language is, in fact, variable, as he tries out first one and then another. |
 | | According to Tarone, we should recognise that the learner is not simply a language learning machine - that is, he does not simply absorb syntax, phonology and lexicon - he is an actor in the social world and is therefore concerned with the pragmatic aspect of language - how to do what, and when. |
 | | Fossilizable linguistic phenomena are linguistic items, rules and subsystems which speakers of a particular NL will tend to keep in their IL relative to a particular TL, no matter what the age of the learner or amount of explanation and instruction he receives in the TL. |
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