Initiation of Self and Other Repair in Classroom-Task Conversations Between University Students: An Interpretative Qualitative Study

Abstract

The study aimed to reveal the repair actions in conversations between the second language learners of English at a private university. The method used in this study was Interpretative Qualitative Method. The participants were ten students of the English Education Study Program in the second semester. The result of the study shows that the students of the English Department, in their ongoing conversation, showed normality in speaking as a second language learner. They could produce repair initiations, self-repair and other repair to maintain their flow of conversation, even though the repair initiations were low in use since there were only a few repairs found from many possibilities of repair from the trouble sources in their conversations.