Doing ‘being an expert or a novice’: Extended other-initiated repair sequences in ELF interactions

Satomi Kuroshima, Blagoja Dimoski, Tricia Okada Yuri Jody Yujobo, Rasami Chaikul

13th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (online)

National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (online)

https://elf13taiwan.whgroup.life/

This study attempts to broaden our understanding of the participants’ strategies, namely, the repair operation methods, used for fixing the broken surface of interactions in English as a multi-lingua franca, especially in the case of extended repair sequences with multiple OIRs. We have examined the first encounters of 20 dyadic interactions in English as a multi-lingua franca between Japanese students and non-Japanese interlocutors conducted through Zoom. Our preliminary finding suggests: when the OIR is initiated by a foreign interlocutor to a Japanese student, regardless of the type of repair initiation method, Japanese students tend to enunciate their original utterance, thereby, treating the other’s problem as their own articulatory problem. On the other hand, when the OIR is initiated by a Japanese speaker, the foreign interlocutors engage in paraphrasing or specification of their original utterance, thereby judging that there is an understanding problem on the Japanese speaker’s side.

Principal Investigator.
This is supported by JSPS Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (18K00753)