Distinctive Features of Oral Production by Fluent and Nonfluent EFL Learners

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概要

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• This study attempts to establish the distinctive features of fluent/nonfluent oral narratives by low intermediate EFL learners. Six fluent speakers and six nonfluent speakers were selected out of 20 EFL Japanese college students on the basis of 12 native teachers' evaluations and examined in terms of the speech rate, hesitation factors (pauses and fillers), and facilitation factors (connectives, prefabricated patterns, and language switch). The results showed that the speech rate in the fluent group had a strong relationship with native speakers' evaluations, but that of the nonfluent group did not. The most distinctive features for discriminating fluent from nonfluent speakers were positioning and frequency of pauses, the use of connectives ("and", "so", "but") and a prefabricated pattern of "when I" clause. Fillers and language switch were less distinctive and rather idiosyncratic phenomena. The findings implied that fluent EFL learners tended to employ fewer hesitation pauses and longer sequences of utterance with connectives and "when I" clause. Pedagogical implications were made to promote EFL oral fluency by introducing the repetition of speech and explicit teaching of strategies and conversational fillers.

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著者

• Kamimoto Tadamitsu

  Kumamoto Gakuen University

• KAWAUCHI Chieko

  Kurume University

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