A Corpus Based Study on Self-repairs in Chinese English Learners’ Oral Production

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10.2991/assehr.k.220131.097How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Self-repair; Repetition; Replacement; Restructure

Abstract

The study of self-repairs in oral performance is not systematic or integrated, in which many issues are still worth being investigated. This paper aims to study the types of self-repairs in Chinese high-proficiency English learners’ oral production in Test for English Majors Band Four (TEM-4). In this corpus-based study, qualitative and quantitative methods are both applied for analyzing randomly selected text recordings in SECCL (Spoken English Corpus of Chinese Learners). It is discovered that there is noticeable high amount of self-repairs occurred, the repetition self-repair and replacement self-repair have outnumbered the restructure self-repair, reflecting some of the Chinese students’ drawback on English oral performance: They tend to pay more attention on linguistic correct of the language but not the communicative ability. Based on this result, the study gives some advices from three perspectives: to learn to use self-repair marker, to cultivate the logical thinking ability, and to add conjunctions to provide more time for speakers to consider, which should inspire further educational researchers, teachers and students.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiyue Sun
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/02/01
TI  - A Corpus Based Study on Self-repairs in Chinese English Learners’ Oral Production
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 539
EP  - 543
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220131.097
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.097
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