Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies ›› 2015, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (09): 70-75.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2015.09.013

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An Insight into Repair Initiation in L2 Teacher Discourse

YAO Jianpeng   

  • Online:2015-09-28 Published:2020-07-25

Abstract: Repair initiation is an important phase in the speech self-repair mechanism in which the initiator sends the repair signal by linguistic and non-linguistic means to the interlocutor for him to repair the speech errors detected. The present paper discusses the teacher repair initiation in the teacher discourse in the L2 teacher-student interactive classroom context in the light of repair initiator, placement and technique and studies the features and the effects of the Chinese English teachers’ repair initiation in the like context based on the data collected.

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