学習者の滞日中における「聞き手発話」の変化

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Foreign learners of Japanese who have learnt the language in their countries often improve their conversational appropriateness during their short stay in Japan. This article investigates the listener responses of nine Taiwanese learners at the time of their arrival in Japan and five months later. Possible correlations between changes in their learner responses and their overall fluency in conversation are inspected by comparing their learner responses and those of native Japanese speakers. The following findings obtain : 1. The occurrence of the backchannels, responses in advance and cooperative sentence-building increased. 2. Among the listener responses, the increased occurrence of soo desu ka 'Is that so?' and soo desu ne 'That is so, isn't it?' overtly contributes to conversational naturalness. 3. The more incidence of the occurrence of the responses in advance, cooperative sentence-building and repetitions, the higher the subjects were evaluated in their competence of Japanese. On the contrary, the frequent use of the backchannels led to negative evaluation. 4. Native Japanese speakers who frequently use the responses in advance and those who frequently use the cooperative sentence-building are in a loose complementary distribution. The like distribution is also found between those who frequently use the responses in advance and cooperative sentence-building and those who frequently use the repetitions.
横浜国立大学の論文