Investigating Filled Pauses Found in English Students’ Conversation
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filled pauses, students' conversation, English studentsAbstract
This study investigates the types and functions of filled pauses in English students’ conversations. Speaking is considered the most difficult skill to learn. As students learn English, they do not make a conversation in English outside the class. As a result, when students make a conversation with no knowledge, they will have some problems. Consequently, they tend to make any filled pauses such as “uhh.” This study used a qualitative method, i.e., content analysis, and the key instruments were the researchers. Meanwhile, the participants were the third-semester students of the English Department of IAIN Batusangkar. In analyzing the data, the researchers listened to all 56 students' audio recordings, transcribed the conversation, and analyzed the data. The study's finding indicated two types of filled pauses found in English students’ conversations - non-lexicalized and lexicalized filled pauses. Then, the researchers found six functions of filled pauses: communicative, affective & cognitive, retrieving the right word, formulating the correct description, preparing to make repairs, and responding to a question.
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