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http://dx.doi.org/10.22156/CS4SMB.2022.12.04.158

Negotiation in Conversations between Native Instructors and Non-native Students of English  

Cha, Mi-Yang (College of General Education, Namseoul University)
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Journal of Convergence for Information Technology / v.12, no.4, 2022 , pp. 158-165 More about this Journal
Abstract
Journal of Convergence for Information Technology. This study explores how native speakers (NSs) and non-native speakers (NNSs) of English negotiate meanings during conversational interactions to achieve successful communication. This study involved 40 participants: 20 native English speakers and 20 Korean university students. The participants were divided into 20 pairs, with each pair consisting of one NS and one NNS. Tasks for conversation were given and the execution recorded in order to collect data. 37 recorded conversations were transcribed and used for analysis, including statistical analyses. Results showed that both NSs and NNSs mutually put in effort for successful communication. While NSs mostly played the role of leading the natural flow of the conversation, encouraging their non-native interlocutors to speak, NNSs used various strategies to compensate for their lack of linguistic competence in the target language. NNSs employed a wide range of communicative strategies to keep the conversation going. The results of this study contribute to a better understanding of interactions between NSs and NNSs and yield pedagogical implications.
Keywords
Native speakers; Non-native speakers; Communication; Interaction; Strategies; Information gap task;
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