Repair in L2 English: an analysis of Finnish upper-secondary school students’ elicited interaction
Keywords:
repair, second-language speech, advanced learners, elicited interactionAbstract
This article analyses instances of repair in the speech of Finnish upper-secondary school students. The material for the study comes from the HY-Talk Corpus, which includes both monologic and dialogic speech by students, collected during a spoken English language test. The analysis shows that in order to cope with problems in their own or their fellow students’ utterances the participants make use of all the repair con! gurations present in everyday conversations. There is also a clear preference for self-initiated self-repair, as has been shown to be the case in naturally occurring talk in interaction. Regardless of the fact that the speech by the students has been elicited for research purposes, it displays mechanisms similar to everyday talk.
