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The Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics
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Korea Journal of English Language and Linguistics - Vol. 21, No. 0, pp.1232-1245
ISSN: 1598-1398 (Print) 2586-7474 (Online)
Print publication date 31 Jan 2021
Received 15 Oct 2021 Revised 15 Dec 2021 Accepted 27 Dec 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15738/kjell.21..202112.1232

Use of L1 Private Speech in a Speaking Test Across School Grades

Sookyung Cho ; Chanho Park
(1st author) Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Tel: 02-2173-3194 sookyungcho@hufs.ac.kr
(corresponding author) Associate Professor, Keimyung University, Tel: 053-580-5964 cpkar@kmu.ac.kr


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Abstract

L1 use has attracted many L2 scholars’ attention, even encouraged as a scaffolding from a sociocultural perspective, but it has rarely been studied in an assessment context. This study investigates how test-takers use L1 in an English speaking test, as their age and English proficiency develop. This study conducts an English speaking test on 988 Korean elementary and middle school students of consecutive grades and investigates their use of Korean. The results reveal that they use L1 in self-regulation, translation, and transition and that their uses change from self-regulation, translation, to transition across age groups. These findings imply that L2 students depend on their L1 in an L2 speaking test and that t heir uses show different patterns as they grow older and L2 proficiency develops.

Keywords:

L1 use, English speaking test, private speech, self-regulating speech, translation, transition

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Research Fund of 2021.

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