Browsing by Author "Melara Hidalgo, Karla Patricia"

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    Strategies to reduce the effects of interlanguage fossilization in the second language performance in the students enrolled in the intensive advanced English I subject from the Bachelor in Modern Languages: specialization in French and English from the school of arts and sciences of the University of El Salvador, semester II, 2018
    (2019-02-07) Mártir Ascencio, Erick Edenilson; Rodríguez Romero, René Humberto; Melara Hidalgo, Karla Patricia; Lipe, Balmore Ernesto; Contreras Cárcamo, Mauricio Salvador
    The following research explores Interlanguage Fossilization (ILF) and its implications in the students’ English performance from the University of El Salvador enrolled in the Intensive Advanced English I subject, from the Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages: specialization in English and French, Semester II 2018 and the use of strategies to reduce its effects. Seen as a main problem in the second language acquisition process, the need to explore fossilization in English learners in the University of El Salvador arose as a result of findings that showed scarce or no information in the subject and that required to be more scrutinized. The research design selected for this particular investigation will be exploratory. This paper focuses on current data from a previous dissertation, and it will explore the students’ profile based on their study habits and current teaching methodology being used at the University of El Salvador. This achieve through interviews, analysis of teaching methods and analysis of previous researches, in order to contextualize the current state of things; all with the purpose of establishing the most effective ways of reducing ILF that will lead to a methodology-based fossilization reduction proposal from this research.