Strategic and on-line planning The influence of surprise information and task time on second language performance

Language Learning and Language Teaching

Volumn 11, Issue , 2005, Pages 193-216

  Skehan, Peter ^a   Foster, Pauline ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 77955149419     PISSN: 15699471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1075/lllt.11.12ske     Document Type: Chapter

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1. These are similar to T-units and c-units but with a much more detailed definition that allows ‘messy’ spoken data to be coded in a principled way. They divide spoken language into syntactically complete units and can be used to calculate how frequently certain features occur in speech samples. Extensive discussion and examples are provided in Foster et al. (2000). See also Chapter 9, this volume.
2. Ellis (personal communication) makes the excellent point that there may also be differences between native and non-native speakers for end-of-clause pauses. Native speakers may indeed pause here, but non-natives may pause longer. To address this issue, native-speaker baseline data would be required, and this is not available for the present dataset.
3. Originally there were sixty-two participants, working as thirty-one dyads, but one voice proved very difficult to transcribe accurately and was accordingly omitted from the analyses.