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Types of syntactic non-clausal units in the Czech learner corpus of spoken English

Autoři: Ježková Šárka

Rok: 2015

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Types of syntactic non-clausal units in the Czech learner corpus of spoken English	The paper presented one part of a bigger multidimensional project called “Aspects of English Language Acquisition of Czech Students on the Onset of Teacher Education” (with financial support from the Czech Science Foundation), which aims at identifying factors influencing the process of learning English as a foreign language by Czech learners, particularly focused on spoken discourse. Grammar of spoken language has been explored for a couple of decades and some authors argue that writing and speech are two different systems (Carter and McCarthy 1995:147). Even though the studies of second language acquisition have revealed that such differences are very important because they are reflected in the discourse of speaking and writing, English language learners are quite frequently instructed on the basis of written discourse (McCarthy and Carter 2001:73). Thus the research has been motivated by the question if the Czech students are able to acquire the syntactic and discourse structures, observable in native speakers’ discourse (Biber et al. 1999:1052). In this presentation, the attention is primarily paid to the use of various types of non-clausal units which are frequently identified in the spoken discourse of English native speakers. The dysfluent character of speech is reflected in the use of fragmentary units like condensed questions, directives and statements, various types of ellipsis and other incomplete utterances. The conclusions of this study may further lead to modifications of individual courses in the TEFL study programme which would enable the students to acquire the appropriate speaking skills.	learner corpus; spoken language; syntactic structures; discourse analysis