Organization of Repair between the English language teachers and ESL learners

Abstract

This research proposal focuses at organization of repair between the English language teachers and ESL learner organizations. Learning is enhanced when the curriculum incorporates concepts of language based on speech. To develop discourse competence among language students, foreign teachers should be familiar with some concepts used at present. This proposal discusses some of these concepts and presents various activities to explore the possibilities in the classrooms and textbooks that can contribute to our aim of repairing discursive conversation. Moreover this research proposal aims to examine the mechanism of repair that occurs in conversational speech in English.

Organization of Repair between the English language teachers and ESL learners

Introduction

Teachers of English as a Second Language or ESL teachers specialize in helping non-native students to master the English language and culture and content of basic skills such as science or historical facts. By providing skills for English and content knowledge, English as a second language helps students to join a regular class at a level appropriate to their age and abilities. While talking to the ESL teacher, students will learn about the progress they have achieved in the command of both English skills and content. Sometimes ESL teachers dominate another language and culture. The repair strategies are the ways that are used to resolve all kinds of conversational problems including speaking, hearing or understanding in the non-native English students. The use of body language and requests for repetition can be helpful in conversational repair.

Problem Statement

This research proposal aims to examine the mechanism of repair that occurs in conversational speech in English. The repair in the conversation is followed by using the body language to the non- native English learners. The repair organization practices when the second language learners have problems in understanding, speaking and hearing. Misunderstanding of language can create miscommunication and bad impact among the teacher and the learners.

Thesis Statement

Conversational repair is required between the English language teachers and ESL learners through the conversational repair strategies.

Purpose of the Study

The purpose of study is to identify the problems faced by the primary grade ESL learners and to recommend helpful repair strategies for avoiding the breakdown of communication that is mostly occurred and to know the conversational analysis repair that is used to initiate the repair.

Aims and Objectives

To identify the problems of ESL learners with respect to the organization of repair

To know the conversational repair strategies for better performance of the ESL teachers.

To know the interventions of repair of conversations for avoiding misunderstandings and miscommunications.

Hypothesis

H1: The conversational repair helps the ESL teachers to develop learning skills in the ESL learners.

HA it denotes the rejection of proposed hypothesis.

Research Questions

How to identify the problems of ESL learners with respect to the organization of repair?

How to know the conversational repair strategies for better performance of the ESL teachers?

How to know the interventions of repair of conversations for avoiding misunderstandingsand miscommunications?

Literature Review

Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson proposed a model of repair mechanism in conversation ...