some teachers discovered some technique whereby errors are by-passed?
>not being sarcastic: I do think — as my original comments presuppose — that >curriculum, including curricular order, affects accuracy.) > >Thanks again, Zev Zev — With regard to your last paragraph in particular — I posted a request for any suggestions on how to deal with a student who, after years of immersion class, uses only the “you familiar” preterite form of virtually every verb, regardless. He himself is aware of the problem, and wishes to improve, but is finding it VERY hard to do so after so long of not having anything done to correct this. It’s actually rather bizarre listening to him say the strangest things quite “fluently”! Although I, too, believe there is fossilization, have to state that Bill Van Patten (U. Illinois) stated at the fall AATSP session that it does not occur — according to him, and I believe I understood him correctly, that even when you have older people who have been making the same L2 errors for years, they are still just in a phase, which presuma
