Task difficulty and self-repair behavior in second language oral production  

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Ahmadian, Mohammad Javad

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 22 no. 3 (2012), page 310-330.
Topik: Iranian EFL learners; second language oral speech; task difficulty; task structure; self-repair behavior
Fulltext: Ahmadian_Mohammad_Javad.pdf (529.28KB)

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This study investigated how the degree of task difficulty, operationalized as the existence of a loose or tight storyline structure, affects self-repair behavior in L2 oral speech. Thirty Iranian female lower-intermediate EFL learners performed two oral narrative tasks, with loose and tight storyline structures. Then, they listened to the audio-tapes of their own performances and were asked to report their thoughts at the time they were performing the task, retrospectively. Results of the analyses revealed that there is a relationship between task difficulty and self-repair behavior such that with the difficult task, participants mostly effectuated appropriacy and different-information repairs. However the participants who performed the less difficult task were predominantly concerned with rectifying their ungrammatical or lexically inappropriate utterances and therefore executed error-repairs more frequently.

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