This paper explores a corpus of elicited informal and formal interactions in English between pairs of Italian university students of Mediazione Linguistica e Culturale at the University of Padua (Italy) and a control corpus of interactions between English native-speaker students at the University of Melbourne (Australia). The aim is to investigate some aspects of the discourse co-constructed in the two corpora, as well as to gain insights into the Italian students’ discourse management ability. Specifically, the non-native and native uses of discourse markers, hedging expressions, and subject-verb contraction are investigated. The paper then discusses the findings and their implications for teaching spoken interaction to intermediate/advanced EFL learners.
Exploring Discourse Management in EFL Interactions between Italian University Students
CASTELLO, ERIK
2017
Abstract
This paper explores a corpus of elicited informal and formal interactions in English between pairs of Italian university students of Mediazione Linguistica e Culturale at the University of Padua (Italy) and a control corpus of interactions between English native-speaker students at the University of Melbourne (Australia). The aim is to investigate some aspects of the discourse co-constructed in the two corpora, as well as to gain insights into the Italian students’ discourse management ability. Specifically, the non-native and native uses of discourse markers, hedging expressions, and subject-verb contraction are investigated. The paper then discusses the findings and their implications for teaching spoken interaction to intermediate/advanced EFL learners.
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