The e?ect of speaker variables on the self- correction behaviour of L2 learners  

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Kormos, J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SYSTEM: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 27 no. 2 (Jun. 1999), page 207-221.
Topik: Accuracy; Attention; Fluency; Individual di?erence variables; Monitoring; Self-correction; Second language acquisition; Speech production
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The paper aims to explore the e?ect of individual speaking style on the self-correction behaviour of L2 speakers. The project reported in the paper involved 30 Hungarian learners of English of varying levels of pro®ciency and made use of self-report data. The results obtained from the analysis of a wide range of variables did not support the assumptions of previous studies as the di?erence between accuracy- and ¯uency-centred speakers did not manifest itself in the global frequency of self-repairs. The two types of learners were found to di?er in how frequently they produced rephrasing-repairs, which involve uncertainty about the correctness of their utterance, in the proportion of the errors they corrected, and in the speed with which they uttered their message. The ®ndings suggest that accuracy-centred participants tended to pay more attention to monitoring at the expense of the other speech production processes, while ¯uency-centred learners allocated more attention to speedy production and focused less on intercepting errors. The paper also points out that L2 learners with di?ering speech habits may make conscious decisions not to correct an error with vary- ing frequency.

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