Topic Development, Affiliative Mimesis and L1 Use in a Novice-Novice L2 English Conversation
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概要
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In an effort to gain a deeper understanding of Japanese college students' English conversational abilities, a series of videotaping sessions were conducted. These sessions were designed to capture examples of the subjects' unguided, natural use of English in a non-pedagogical environment. This article is an initial exploratory case study describing one of these videotaped English L2 conversations between three Japanese female college students. Three interactional phenomena are explicated in detail: the use by the participants of Japanese, their use of new-topic elicitation as a means of terminating long silences, and a communicative strategy based on reflexive mimicry of a preceding utterance.
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