Interlanguage Spoken Discourse -- An Exploratory Study in Discourse Markers/遠東通識學報

Abstract

中介語之研究，向來偏重於探討以英語為外語者在寫作中之使用。少有研究討論其在外語（尤其是口語）中的使用情形。本研究之目的，經由檢視大學生之英語口語語料，探討其中介語之運用。受測者為北部某大學二十四位大一學生，其中男性八位，女性十六位，蒐集到約120分鐘的口語語料，經由語料謄寫與分析，比對出以英語為母語者及以英語為外語者的使用異同。最後，本文根據研究結果，提出關於教學及未來研究之建議。

The purpose of this study is to examine EFL college students` spoken discourse in a pedagogical contextwith a focus on how discourse markers are used. Previous studies in Taiwan on L2 language learner`s discourse have focused primarily on analyzing candidates` performance in written discourse. Few attempts have been made to provide a detailed account of L2 learners` oral discoursewith respect to their use of discourse markers. The subjects are 24 freshman students at a college in northern Taiwan. Eight of the subjects are male and sixteen of them are female. A total of 120-minute audiotape recording of EFL students` oral discussion is transcribed and analyzed by a discourse analysis approach. The L2 learners` interlanguage spoken corpus is compared and contrasted with previous findings in L1. Conclusions and future directions are then drawn from the findings.