A learner's second language is not broken first-language grammar, and it is not the target grammar with holes in it. Larry Selinker called it an interlanguage: a real, internally consistent system in its own right, with its own rules, that some learners' brains simply stop revising, a process called fossilization. This course takes the interlanguage seriously as a linguistic object worth studying, not a mistake to be corrected.
IACSInt'l Academy for Consciousness Studies