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Download full textKhojastehrad, Shadi – International Education Studies, 2012
Previous studies on hesitation strategies used by beginner or advanced L2 learners revealed that beginners mostly leave their hesitation pauses unfilled which causes their speech to sound disfluent, and advanced learners tend to use various fillers in order to sound like native speakers. The present paper reports on a study which investigated the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Oral Language, Language Tests, Discourse Analysis
rad, Shadi Khojasteh; Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah – English Language Teaching, 2012
Hesitation strategies appear in speech in the form of filled or unfilled pauses, paralinguistic markers like nervous laughter or coughing, or signals which are used to justify units in the coming utterances in which the speaker struggles to produce. The main functions of these forms of hesitation strategies have been associated with speech…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedDelamere, Trish – System, 1996
Reports on a study investigating how Americans respond to English as a Second Language (ESL) speech depending on the non-native speaker's accent and whether there were errors in the ESL speech. Findings indicate that Americans exhibit different cultural prejudices towards different foreign speakers depending on the accent of the speakers. (50…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Dialects, English (Second Language)
