Subsequences of self-initiated self-repair repetition in the speech of Arab EFL students

• Autores: Ali Yahya Al-Arishi
• Localización: ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics, ISSN 0019-0810, ISSN-e 1783-1490, Nº. 113-114, 1996, págs. 221-244
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study investigates the subsequential relationship between repetition and the other three types of self-initiated self-repair - correction, abandonment, and postponement - in the speech of Arab EFL students: Repetition followed by correction (Re ? C), by abandonment (Re ? A), and by postponement (Re ? P). It also examines the repetition as repair (Re/R) pattern when it is followed by an error (Re/R ? E). Subjects of the study were twenty-seven beginning EFL students whose native language was Arabic and who attended a college in Saudi Arabia: fifteen from level one and twelve from level two. The data of the study confirm the frequent use of repetition as a self-repair device, particularly repetition used as repair (the Re/R pattern), and that Re/R functions almost exclusively as a planning or stalling device. Also there appeared to be a subsequential relationship between repetition and abandonment (the Re ? A pattern), particularly with the first-year subjects; a subsequential relationship between repetition and correction (the Re ? C pattern) for the level one group, and a subsequential relationship between repetition as repair and a following error (the Re/R ? E pattern) for both groups. However, this last pattern particularly needs further testing.