FOSSILIZED ERRORS IN THE WRITTEN PRODUCTION OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE STUDENTS (B2 LEVEL)
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Fossilization, a phenomenon that inevitably occurs in the interlanguage of students learning the target language, has been the subject of studies in the field of second language acquisition for a long time. Nevertheless, the research studies carried out in the past few decades have been more theoretical than empirical. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to present the results of empirical research in an attempt to identify the most common fossilized errors of students at the B2 level in the Italian language in order to reduce the number of errors during the learning process and to improve language teaching by creating didactic materials specially designed for Serbophone students of Italian. The participants were 24 students in a private language school in Belgrade whose written production was analyzed after the completion of the A2 level and then after the completion of the B2 level, and their errors were compared. The results showed that, in spite of two years of exposure to the target language, certain errors persist in the learner’s interlanguage although it was believed that at the B2 level they would disappear.
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