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Ways of building relationships in learner spoken discourse

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	Ways of building relationships in learner spoken discourse	The paper presented the analysis of learner corpus focused on selected structures typical of spoken discourse. It is a part of a bigger project called “Aspects of English Language Acquisition of Czech Students on the Onset of Teacher Education”, aimed at the process of acquiring communicative competence in speaking English as a foreign language by Czech university learners, supported by the Czech Science Foundation. The discourse of conversation is naturally co-constructed by both sides that must permanently react to the ongoing communication and the interactive character of such communication influences the choice of particular structures helping to build up the relations. Thus the analysis is primarily focused on various types of adjacency pairs; strategies of the use of response elicitors, interaction initiators; forms of responses and means of expressing attention during the dialogues. Another area of interest includes the features of dysfluency, i.e. the distribution of various discourse markers and hesitators: repeats and filled pauses (Biber et al. 1999). The analysed corpus comprises almost 150,000 words, i.e. performances of more than 200 students from three Czech universities at the very beginning of their study of a TEFL Programme. The research has been motivated by the question if the patterns of distribution of individual structures observable in native speakers’ discourse (Carter and McCarthy 1995) are also acquired by the students of B2 level of CEFR. The findings are discussed in the context of second language acquisition and may further lead to modifications of content and teaching methods in some courses of the study programme with the aim to improve the skills of future English language teachers.	learner corpus; spoken langauge; discourse analysis; conversation; interaction