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Distribution of Hesitation Discourse Markers Used by Iranian EFL Learners during an Oral L2 Test by Khojastehrad, Shadi is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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Previous st udies o n hesi tation st rategies used by beginner or ad vanced L2 l earners revealed t hat beginners mostly leav e th eir hesitation p auses un filled which ca uses t heir sp eech t o s ound disfluent, a nd advanced learners tend to use various fillers in order to sound like native speakers. The present p aper reports o n a st udy w hich i nvestigated t he distribution of hesitation discourse markers including silen t pauses, silen t pauses and fillers, f illers, and n on-lexical words used b y Iran ian u niversity students in an oral (L2) test. The st udy e xamines t he l ocation of t he discourse m arkers of hesitation acr oss utterances produced by t he participants. The respondents were a group of students registered in the Tertiary English Language Program at a university in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The aim was to identify the frequency of all h esitation strategies used in four lo cations of In itial, Midd le, and Final position of t he u tterances to find out th e mo st frequent l ocation of hesitation during an oral (L2) test.
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- Author
- Khojastehrad, Shadi
- Publisher
- Canadian Center of Science and Education; Toronto: Canadian Center of Science and Education (ISSN 1913-9020)
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences