The purpose of this study is to investigate disfluency and gesture in the second language under
specific conditions such as familiarity vs. non-familiarity, concrete topic type vs. abstract topic
type and speaking with native speaker vs. speaker with non-native speaker. The sample of this
study was sixteen students from the Department of Basic English in Middle East Technical
University (DBE), three instructors from DBE and one instructor from Modern Language
Department in Middle East Technical University. Two of the instructors are native and the rest
of them are non-native speakers of English.
With an assigned instructor each student spoke on the following topics: making spaghetti, giving
directions, spring festival and clashing midterms, and effects of religion on our life. The
conversations on each topic were recorded audio-visually. Then the audio-visual data was annotated in terms of linguistic and gestural elements. In order to explore the relation among
disfluency, gesture and controlled variables, quantitative data analysis methods were used.
Levelt&rsquo / s speech production and Krauss&rsquo / s gesture production model were used as a basic
framework. Dual Coding theory and Metalinguistic Awareness Theory was used to explain
intricate results of the present study.
As a result of the study, it was found that in the concrete topic condition, learners speak more
fluently because of time and topic effects. Similarly, in the condition of familiar addressee and
native speaker, learners speak more fluently than they do when speaking with a non-familiar or a
non- native speaker.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610090/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 October 2008 |
| Creators | Vural, Erkan |
| Contributors | Zeyrek, Deniz |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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