Effects of language proficiency on eye-gaze in second language conversations
Ichiro Umata, Seiichi Yamamoto, Koki Ijuin, Masafumi Nishida · 2013
The importance of conversation in second languages during international collaboration continues to increase, as does the risk of miscommunication caused by the differences in the linguistic proficiency of participants. This study provides a basis for monitoring each participant's status by studying the effects of linguistic proficiency on such communicative activities as utterances and gazes in second language conversations. In such conversations, we found that gaze produces different functions from those in native language conversations and that partners' linguistic proficiency may also affect gaze functions.