CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION AND NEGOTIATION OF MEANING IN TASK-BASED GROUP INTERACTION AMONG NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS
Journal Title: Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
English plays a crucial role as the working and indispensable language of ASEAN. Sketching the typology of situations and participantsā features of interaction, when English is used as a lingua franca is valuable for global citizens. This qualitative study was aimed at investigating lingual Franca interaction and negotiation of meaning among international learners of EFL in English interactions. Five undergraduate students were involved in this study. The recording of the interactions of the focus group was for qualitative data. The recording was transcribed and analyzed by content analysis. The result of the study illustrates substantially produced language including negotiation of meaning. The particular vocabulary, pronunciation and the complexity of the task were found to be the triggers activating the other forms of negotiation of meaning. In addition, learners made use of repair mechanism rather than preventing conversational trouble to conquer communication breakdown. Among the repair strategy, clarification requests gained the biggest portion of the others. The study also reveals that learners' language features of meaning negotiation indicated the interferences from their mother tongues.
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Nittaya Sanguanngarm
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