Development of the use of discourse markers across different fluency levels of CEFR: A learner corpus analysis

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=E.4ir2QTq~" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=E.4ir2QTq~</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.21016.hua" target="_blank" >10.1075/prag.21016.hua</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Development of the use of discourse markers across different fluency levels of CEFR: A learner corpus analysis

Original language description

Fluent L2 English speakers have been shown to be competent users of discourse markers (DMs) but research has so far not focused on the way that the use of DMs develops across different levels of proficiency. The present study aims to illustrate the developmental patterns of well, you know and like as they are represented in the speech of A1-C2 learners of EFL, considering also their immersive experience. The extended LINDSEI corpus (which has been assessed for proficiency and perceived fluency) containing 15-minute recordings of 183 learners and a parallel native corpus (50 speakers) provided 366,397 tokens which contained 3,520 instances of the analyzed DMs. Their relative frequency at the different levels of proficiency has been compared and it has also been compared with native-speaker frequencies, showing that the frequency of these DMs increases with rising proficiency and perceived fluency levels, and may affect perceived fluency ratings. C1 and C2 learners&apos; performance is virtually native-like (except in the use of like), and immersive experience closely correlates with DM frequency. It is suggested that the use of DMs as a speech management strategy may be preferable to the use of fillers and pausing, and that this strategy should receive more didactic attention.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Pragmatics

ISSN

1018-2101

e-ISSN

2406-4238

Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

BE - BELGIUM

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

49-77

UT code for WoS article

000935637800003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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