Strategies for Preventing and Resolving Temporary Fossilization in Second Language Acquisition

In the early period of implementation of the policy of opening China to the outside world when many English teachers of China paid great attention to the puzzling phenomenon: “New Concept English” and “English 900”enjoyed great popularity in China and they were used as the textbook in many English training institutions. They used to be broadcast constantly by TV and radio stations and many parents regarded seeing movies and imitating tapes as an important way for guiding children in their English learning. For a time, the two prevailing books evoked people’s desire for English knowledge. However, in retrospect, people found that only few had a good mastery of English in the wake of having finished learning them. Why? As college English teachers, the authors attempt to make a preliminary probe into the causes for the above phenomenon from psycholinguistic aspects, of which, we believe that temporary fossilization is the greatest obstacle in second language acquisition, and to take corresponding measures positively is a good way for us to prevent and resolve temporary fossilization so as to raise the efficiency of our English teaching work.