Tähendusläbirääkimised ja vestlust toetavad strateegiad algajate eesti keele õppijate ja emakeele- kõnelejate interaktsioonis
Negotiations of meaning and strategies to support conversation in interactions between learners and native speakers of Estonian

Summary/Abstract: #is article reports the initial part of a longitudinal study of oral interaction of learners and native speakers of Estonian. #e subjects of the study are "ve adult learners (whose native languages are English, Romanian, Udmurt (Votyak) and Russian) with no previous knowledge of Estonian who during the period of the study participated in an intensive course of Estonian. #e study also included three subjects who are native speakers of Estonian and who served as conversation partners for the learners. During the one-year investigation period, several conversations (four in the case of four of the subjects, two in the case of one) with an average duration of 20 minutes were recorded between the learner and a native speaker. All L1 subjects possessed an experience of teaching Estonian as a foreign language but none of them was teaching Estonian to the subject learners. #e data for this article were drawn from the "rst recordings, which

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