British Council describes fossilization as “the process in which incorrect language becomes a habit and cannot easily be corrected.” https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/fossilization
The example they give is “many advanced level learners who have Spanish as an L1 do not distinguish between ‘he’ and ‘she’. This could be a fossilized error.”
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