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False starts as modified output in second language learners of English: implications for proficiency

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posted on 2023-06-09, 22:56 authored by Simon WilliamsSimon Williams
This study reports a number of formal differences in the false starts produced by second language speakers of English at two levels of fluency. The results have implications for learning and teaching, testing and materials writing. Previous descriptions of false starts have relied on psycholinguistic taxonomies (Levelt, 1983; Kormos, 1998) based on their imputed function, and have resulted in definitional ambiguity and problems in application, e.g. failure to discriminate between those of different proficiency levels. In view of the importance of false starts as sites of language acquisition (Swain, 1998), it is clearly of interest to identify features that will enable finer discrimination to take place. The position taken is that such features can be discovered between the false start content produced by learners at contrasting fluency levels..

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British Association for Applied Linguistics: extended abstracts from BAAL 2019

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Manchester Metropolitan University

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1-3

Article number

a304

Event name

BAAL 2019

Event location

Manchester Metropolitan University

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conference

Event date

29–31 August 2019

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  • Sussex Centre for Language Studies Publications

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2021-01-29

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2021-02-05

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2021-01-29

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