Repair Strategies Usage of Primary Elementary ESL Students: Implications for ESL Teachers

Autor/inn/en	Cho, Eun Hye; Larke, Patricia J.
Titel	Repair Strategies Usage of Primary Elementary ESL Students: Implications for ESL Teachers
Quelle	In: TESL-EJ, 14 (2010) 3, (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-4303
Schlagwörter	Elementary School Students; Interpersonal Communication; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Language Teachers; Communication Strategies; Video Technology; Translation; Definitions; Error Correction; Nonverbal Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interpersonale Kommunikation; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Kommunikationsstrategie; Begriffsbestimmung; Korrektur; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation
Abstract	Repair strategies are the ways in which students resolve conversational problems in speaking, hearing and understanding. While there is a plethora of research on college and adult students' repair strategies usage, limited research has been done on the repair strategies usage of elementary school students, more specifically, English as a Second Language (ESL) students. This article examines the repair strategies used by 5 ESL primary elementary students in grades 1-4. Data were collected from 24 class hours of video recordings. The results revealed that students used 9 types of repair strategies: (1) Unspecified; (2) Interrogatives; (3) (Partial) repeat; (4) Partial repeat plus question word; (5) Understanding check; (6) Requests for repetition; (7) Request for definition, translation or explanation; (8) Correction; and (9) Nonverbal strategies. Of the 9 types, students used understanding check 30% of the time and (partial) repeat 24% of the time. (Contains 1 figure and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	TESL-EJ. e-mail: editor@tesl-ej.org; Web site: http://tesl-ej.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10