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论文类型：会议论文

发表时间：2012-01-01

收录刊物：CPCI-SSH

页面范围：306-311

关键字：dysfluency; pause; notional words; function words; chunks

摘要：This paper studies the use of pauses by Chinese EFL college students, comparing pause lengths, positions and patterns, in narrative oral English between 10 Chinese and 10 American college students. This study finds that Chinese EFL students cannot make good use of pause strategies and tend to pause more in clauses rather than at clause conjunctures. Moreover, the shorter MLR and more pauses at notional words can account for the dysfluency of Chinese EFL students' oral English.