Exploring the relationship between behavior matching and interlocutor perceptions in L2 interaction

McDonough, Kim; Kim, Yoo Lae; Uludag, Pakize; Liu, Chen; Trofimovich, Pavel

doi:10.1016/j.system.2022.102865

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“…In fact, in prior analyses of the data drawn from the present corpus, interlocutors' visual and interactive behaviors were attested frequently across all three tasks. For example, hand gestures and head movements (e.g., nods, tilts) occurred frequently in the moving to Montréal task (McDonough et al, 2022); breaking eye contact (looking away), blinking, and hand gesturing were attested most frequently in the close call story task (Tsunemoto et al, 2022a); and cases of backchanneling, nodding, and responsiveness (i.e., completing or elaborating on the interlocutor's utterance) emerged as most common interactive behaviors in the academic discussion task (Trofimovich et al, 2021). From this standpoint, speakers may have adopted an egocentric perspective on their performance because they interpreted interlocutor visual and interactive behaviors as reflecting the peaks and troughs in their own comprehensibility, anxiety, and collaboration.…”

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Framing second language comprehensibility: Do interlocutors’ ratings predict their perceived communicative experience?

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Tekin³

et al. 2023

Applied Psycholinguistics

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Comprehensibility has risen to the forefront of second language (L2) speech research. To date, research has focused on identifying the linguistic, behavioral, and affective correlates of comprehensibility, how it develops over time, and how it evolves over the course of an interaction. In all these approaches, comprehensibility is the dependent measure, but comprehensibility can also be construed as a predictor of other communicative outcomes. In this study, we examined the extent to which comprehensibility predicted interlocutors’ overall impression of their interaction. We analyzed data from 90 paired interactions encompassing three communicative tasks. Interactive partners were L2 English speakers who did not share the same native language. After each task, they provided self- and partner-ratings of comprehensibility, collaboration, and anxiety, and at the end of the interaction, they provided exit ratings of their overall experience in the interaction, communication success, and comfort interacting with their partner. We fit mixed-effects models to the self- and partner-ratings to investigate if those ratings changed over time, and we used the results to derive model-estimated predictors to be incorporated into regression models of the exit ratings. Only the self-ratings, including self-comprehensibility, were significantly associated with the exit ratings, suggesting a speaker-centric view of L2 interaction.

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confidence: 99%

Framing second language comprehensibility: Do interlocutors’ ratings predict their perceived communicative experience?

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Trofimovich²,

Tekin³

et al. 2023

Applied Psycholinguistics

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Is nonverbal behavior during conversation related to perceived fluency?

Kim,

Liu,

Trofimovich

et al. 2024

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Second language (L2) students typically aim to be effective language users, which involves learning both verbal and nonverbal aspects of communication. One aspect of effective language use is fluency, which Segalowitz (2010) described in three ways. The first is cognitive fluency, which is efficiency in a speaker's operation of underlying production processes, for example, at the level of planning, monitoring, and executing an utterance. The second is utterance fluency, which refers to the observable speech features produced by a speaker, such as their pauses or repetitions. Finally, defined as "a judgment made about speakers based on impressions drawn from their speech" (Segalowitz, 2010, p. 48), perceived fluency concerns how a speaker's speech, such as its fluidity or smoothness, impacts the listener. Our focus is on perceived fluency and its previously underexplored link with L2 speakers' nonverbal behavior.When it comes to observable dimensions of L2 performance that contribute to a speaker's perceived fluency, listeners tend to primarily rely on temporal dimensions of speech such as articulation rate, pausing, and repair in the form of repetitions and self-corrections (

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