Conclusion
Many advanced English learners face the difficult challenge to become highly skilled English users despite fossilized errors, insufficient learning opportunities, and little contact with proficient English speakers who are able and willing to provide helpful feedback. A glimmer of hope lies in the fact that a little awareness goes a long way. As students are given opportunities to see common errors, understand their impact on communication, develop a more integrated view of English structure and meaning, and implement techniques for increased self-monitoring and attention, they can make considerable gains in English proficiency. Teachers of advanced adult ESL learners can begin by listing frequent, common errors made by their students. They can then create lessons to help students notice these errors and understand their possible negative impacts on communication. Teachers can then orchestrate relationally-driven encounters between highly successful English as a second language speakers and their students to develop the awareness that change is indeed possible. At this point, students are ready for in depth learning about connections between language forms such as grammar, spelling and pronunciation, and the communication of meaning. Finally, teachers can lead students in exercises to develop sustained language awareness resulting in self-correction and improved accuracy. Teachers have long lamented that fossilized errors seem nearly impossible to change. While we can certainly acknowledge that such change is not easy, students like Dewi show us that it is possible. Perhaps the students in your classroom just need a little guidance through the stages of awareness in order to develop more accurate speech and to achieve more success in pursuing their goals and dreams.