한국어 학습자의 스스로 고쳐 말하기 연구

A Study of Self-repairs in the Spoken Performance of Korean Learners

The purpose of this study is to analyze the self-repairs in the spoken performance of Korean learners. Self-repairs mean self recognition the difference between contents and expression of discourse and repairing it. This study analysed spoken performance of 10 Chinese Korean learners, it was observed that covert self-repairs, overt self-repairs. The types of self-repairs are classified into overt repairs which repair the errors of external discourse and covert repairs recognised internal errors. Overt repairs are used for obvious communication by means of emphasis or supple mentation of preceding discourse with substitution and repetition repairs. Covert repairs take a role making normal progress of planning and remembering discourse by means of hesitates and simple repetition. The result were as follows: Korean language learners showed significantly higher frequencies of covert self-repairs than overt self-repairs. These results are discussed in terms of covert self-repairs that claim disfluencies are the by-products of covert self-repair processes.