Fossil fuel power station Fossil fuel power station A fossil fuel power station is a power station which burns a fossil fuel such as coal, natural gas, or petroleum to produce electricity. Central station fossil fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation. In many countries, such plants provide most of the electrical energy used. Fossil fuel power stations have machinery to convert the heat energy of combustion into mechanical energy, which then operates an electrical generator. The prime mover may be a steam turbine, a gas turbine or, in small plants, a reciprocating internal combustion engine. All plants use
Interlanguage fossilization does motivation to achieve native-like competence diminish? The concept of fossilization in SLA research is so intrinsically related to interlanguage that Selinker considers it to be a fundamental phenomenon of all SLA and not just to adult learners. Fossilization has received such wide recognition that it has been entered in the "Random House Dictionary of the English Language" (1987). Selinker's concept of fossilization is similar to that of Nemser, Tarone, and Sridhar, all of whom attempted to explore the causes of fossilization in second language learners' interlanguage. Fossilization has attracted considerable interest among researchers and has engendered significant differences of