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Dysfluency markers and their functions in learner spoken discourse

Autoři: Ježková Šárka

Rok: 2016

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Dysfluency markers and their functions in learner spoken discourse	The paper presents the analysis primarily focused on the features of dysfluency, i.e. the distribution of various discourse markers and hesitators, repeats, reformulations and filled and unfilled pauses. All of them are generally perceived as structures reflecting ongoing mechanisms of processing and monitoring the conversation, which can have ambivalent role: they can be both an expression of difficulties with encoding the message and a sign of an attempt to help the hearer decode the message. Thus the interpretation of a particular function depends on the context and can be identified as a signal of fluency or dysfluency. The research has been motivated by the question if the patterns of distribution of individual structures observable in native speakers’ discourse are also acquired by the students of B2 level of CEFR. The analysed corpus comprises about 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 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 discourse; dysfluency; second language acquisition