Attention et production d'autoreformulations autoamorcées en français langue seconde, quelle relation?

Abstract

RESUMECette étude avait comme objectif de tenter d'établir un lien entre la capacité attentionnelle et les autoreformulations autoamorcées d'apprenants adultes de français langue seconde produites lors d'une tâche de narration. L'analyse des données n'a pas permis d'établir une association significative entre ces deux variables. Les résultats appuient donc ceux obtenus d'une étude antérieure (c.-à-d., Fincher, 2006) ayant examiné, de manière différente, la même question de recherche. Les résultats doivent être interprétés en fonction de la mesure de l'attention utilisée, à savoir une mesure capacitaire. Les conclusions de l'étude permettent de faire ressortir le manque de précision concernant la nature du processus attentionnel en jeu lors de production d'autoreformulations autoamorcées.

Evolution of Self-Repair Behaviour in Narration Among Adult Learners of French as a Second Language

“…However, as noted in Simard et al (2011)'s conclusions and further confirmed by Zuniga (2015) and Simard et al (2016), attention shift, that is, the shift of attentional resource allocation to multiple parallel stimuli, seems to be the attentional function involved in self-repair behaviours.…”

“…Self-initiated self-repairs, defined as postarticulatory revisions of speech that speakers themselves initiate and complete (Salonen & Laakso, 2009), are particularly interesting in L2 acquisition research since they denote "an explicit focus on or manipulation of language forms which interrupts the normal flow of production" (Griggs, 1997, p. 407), thus providing information about the cognitive processes in which learners are engaged. Consequently, they have been frequently used as a powerful tool for observing and understanding L2 speech production (e.g., Arroyo, 2003;Camps, 2003;Fathman, 1980;Gilabert, 2007;Griggs, 1998Griggs, , 2007Kormos, 1998Kormos, , 1999aKormos, , 1999bKormos, , 2000bLennon, 1984Lennon, , 1990Lennon, , 1994O'Connor, 1988;Simard, Bergeron, Liu, Nader, & Redmond, 2016;Simard, Fortier, & Zuniga, 2011;Verhoeven, 1989).…”

“…It has also been used in previous research examining repair phenomena (Bange & Kern, 1996;Camps, 2003;Gilabert, 2007;Simard et al, 2011;Simard et al, 2016), and, more importantly, it is also suggested that such a task promotes learners' use of repairs in oral production (e.g., Gilabert, 2007).…”

“…In this regard, Simard et al (2011) pointed out that while self-repair categories vary from one study to another and are operationalized in different ways (e.g. Bange & Kern, 1996;Kormos, 1999a), one distinction found in all self-repair studies is between what are referred to as form repairs (F-Repair) and choice repairs (C-Repairs).…”

“…Frepairs refer to modifications to linguistic form while C-Repairs signal modifications changing the conceptual content or meaning of utterances. The judges therefore coded the 343 remaining repairs as either F-Repairs (n = 222) or C-Repairs (n = 121) [see Simard et al, 2011].…”