Investigating L2 Spoken English through the Role Play Learner Corpus

Autor/inn/en	Nava, Andrea; Pedrazzini, Luciana
Titel	Investigating L2 Spoken English through the Role Play Learner Corpus
Quelle	In: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 1 (2011) 1, S.37-56 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2083-5205
Schlagwörter	Oral Language; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Grammar; Language Usage; Italian; Language Proficiency; Language Role; Native Language; Comparative Analysis; Language Variation; Guidelines; Standards; Undergraduate Students; Discourse Analysis; Foreign Countries; Role Playing; Student Evaluation; Evaluation Methods; Italy (Milan); United Kingdom; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Grammatik; Sprachgebrauch; Italienisch; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachenvielfalt; Richtlinien; Standard; Diskursanalyse; Ausland; Rollenspiel; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Großbritannien; Europa
Abstract	We describe an exploratory study carried out within the University of Milan, Department of English the aim of which was to analyse features of the spoken English of first-year Modern Languages undergraduates. We compiled a learner corpus, the "Role Play" corpus, which consisted of 69 role-play interactions in English carried out by first-year students at B1+ -B2 levels according to the "Common European Framework of Reference". The analysis focused on the students' use of two features of spoken English grammar, tails and the discourse markers "yes" and "yeah". Instances of these features from the data were compared with examples of British native speaker, learner and Italian native speaker usage. Preliminary findings pointed to the role of the students' first language, L2 proficiency and specific task features in the range and frequency of these phenomena as well as in the functions they deployed in the spoken discourse of the informants. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Adam Mickiewicz University Department of English Studies. Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Ul. Nowy Swiat 28-30, 62-800 Kailsz, Poland. e-mail: ssllt@amu.edu.pll; Web site: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01