Abstract Lexical fossilization is inevitable in college students’ English writing in China, Chinese college non-English major students often are influenced by lexical fossilization in their English writing, hence they could not write good articles to satisfy themselves and their teachers。 The paper analyzes the phenomena of lexical fossilization in Non- English major college students’ writing and discusses how to solve the problems。 Which is aimed at making them realize the causes of lexical fossilization, knowing the methods of avoiding lexical fossilization, reducing the bad impacts of lexical fossilization in English writing and improving the level of English writing。  75096

This paper analyzes kinds of phenomena of lexical fossilization from shape, meaning and cultural habit of words in non-English major college students’ writing。 Meantime, according to kinds of phenomena of lexical fossilization, the reasons can be explained from internal and external factors, which are language transfer, learning strategies, academic environment and learning tools。 Like as the thesis, four strategies of resolution have been mentioned。

Keywords: non-English major; lexical fossilization; English writing; strategies of resolution

摘要在中国大学生的英语写作中，词汇石化是不可避免的，非英语专业大学生在英语写作中常常会受到词汇石化的影响，因而写不出令自己和老师满意的作文。文章通过对大学非英语专业学生在英语写作中出现的词汇石化的现象的剖析，探讨了如何解决其在写作中出现的词汇石化现象的问题，旨在让大学非英语类学生认识到写作中词汇石化现象的成因，了解避免石化现象的方法,从而减少词汇石化对写作的影响,提高英语写作水平。

这篇论文从单词的形，义和文化习惯差异上分析非英语专业学生英语写作中的词汇石化现象。同时，根据词汇石化现象的种类，可以分别从内因和外因来解释它，原因有语言迁移，学习策略，学习环境和学习工具。在这篇论文中，针对词汇石化的原因提出了四个解决策略。

毕业论文关键词：非英语专业；词汇石化；英语写作；解决策略

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature Review 1

2。1 The definition of fossilization 1

2。2 The definition of lexical fossilization 2

3。 Lexical Fossilization in Non-English Major Students’ English Writing 3

3。1 Lexical fossilization on spelling 3

3。2 Lexical fossilization on the word order 4

3。3 Lexical fossilization on synonyms 4

3。4 Lexical fossilization on part of speech 5

3。5 Lexical fossilization on incomplete equivalence of semantics 6

4。 Reasons for Lexical Fossilization 9

4。1 Internal factors 9

4。2 External factors 9

5。Strategies of Resolution for Lexical Fossilization 10

5。1 Learning and comparing words from different angles 10

5。2 Improving the habits and optimizing learning strategies 11

5。3 Reading original English works and browsing English website 11

5。4 Finding efficient learning tools