The use of tag questions in the oral production of L2 English learners
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[1] Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, España
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- Localización: The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction / coord. por María Angeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie, 2018, ISBN 978-90-272-0141-6, págs. 145-170
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Although tag questions (TQs) are a conspicuous and frequently discussed phenomenon of spoken English, little is known about their acquisition by L2 learners. Drawing on two spoken comparable corpora, this study discusses differences between Spanish learners' and native speakers' (NS) use of canonical tag questions (CTQs). Our results reveal that CTQs are significantly underused by Spanish learners as compared to their native counterparts. The reasons cannot be found in the learners' L 1, since underuse is pervasive in the 11 subcomponents of the Lou vain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage and CTQs are known to be more frequent in Spanish than in English. The rather low frequency of English CTQs in the Louvain Corpus of Native English Conversation as compared with a reference corpus (ICE-GB) points to context-related factors.
