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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/94297

Perceived‘ Native-Likeness’ of Japanese Native Speakers’ Disfluency by Learners and Their Intentions for Its Usage

日本語

perceptual fluency

2025-03

Hokkaido University, Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education, International Education and Research Division

Journal of Japanese language and international education studies

28

38-55

It has become widely recognized that native speakers’ utterancesincludes’ a noteworthy number of disfluency such as pauses, fillersand repairs. In addition, it has been increasingly recognized thatcertain disfluencies do not stem from a lack of linguistic competenceor errors but rather serve functional roles in facilitating effectivecommunication. Such disfluency, however, are rarely addressed asteaching/learning items in Japanese language classes. To deepen thediscussion on how to incorporate disfluency into educational settingsin the future, this study takes an exploratory approach from theperspective of how learners perceive the disfluency used by nativespeakers, which has not been focused on in previous studies.The survey targeted 23 intermediate Japanese learners. It foundthat native speakers’ usage of fillers and scrambled sentences isperceived as a part of ‘native-speaker-like’ way of speaking. Also,the result indicates the learners’ desire to acquire ‘phonetic fillersthat are short and minimally disruptive to the flow of speech’ and‘utterances with word orders that are not textbook-formal.’

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