Hesitation and Disfluency in Oral L2 Test

The author takes us through a study carried out among Iranian university students at a public university in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia who had learned English in an EFL context, and introduces us to the hesitation strategies, including silent pauses, silent pauses and fillers, fillers, and non-lexical words used by them. Do you think these strategies are affected by context? You can find your answers in this book.A must-read.

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Shadi Khojastehrad is a PhD candidate of Applied Linguistics at University Putra Malaysia. She got her master in Applied Linguistics and bachelor in TEFL. She has published and presented several research papers on EIL,sociolinguistics, language and communication,gender studies,and perception in different international journals and conferences.