英文摘要 |
This paper studies the conversation repair by advanced-level overseas students in their oral Chinese class. There are four main findings: firstly, the repair patterns used most frequently reflect the tendency that students pay more attention to the language form than the content of communication; excessive use of repetition repair is affecting the fluency of students' Chinese. Secondly, there exists clear imbalance in students' use of initiation strategies, and discourse marker is adopted most frequently in initiating a repair. Thirdly, students are more likely to use the pattern of‘self-initiation self-repair'. This phenomenon indicates that students have strong awareness of repairing. Yet most of students' repair patterns are simply structured, showing that students' overall ability to construct conversation is rather weak. Finally, there is obvious difference between male and female students with different cultural backgrounds in their conversation repair. The paper tries to offer some teaching suggestions according to findings of this study. |