Eye Gaze Analyses in L1 and L2 Conversations: Difference in Interaction Structures

Ijuin, Koki; Horiuchi, Yasuhiro; Umata, Ichiro; Yamamoto, Seiichi

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“…The experimental results show that the averages of speaker's gazing ratios are almost the same in four kinds of conversations (two different conversation topics and two different conversation languages), whereas the averages of listener's gazing ratios are larger in L2 conversations than in L1 conversations for both conversation topics. Ijuin et al [18], [19] classified three interlocutors into current speaker, next speaker, and other participant (not next speaker) by observing the transition of speaker in the conversation and, furthermore, compared the speaker's gaze activities in L1 and L2 from the perspective of conversational interaction. The analysis revealed two key points: (1) the speaker gazes at the interlocutor who is to be the next speaker more in L2 than in L1 conversations, whereas the averages of speakers' gazing ratios are almost the same in both L1 and L2 conversations; (2) not only the next speaker but also the other participant, who is not gazed at so much by the current speaker, gazes at the current speaker more in L2 conversations.…”

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Comparison of Effect of Speaker's Eye Gaze on Selection of Next Speaker between Native- and Second-Language Conversations

Ijuin¹,

Yamashita²,

Kato³

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GLU 2017 International Workshop on Grounding Language Understanding

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In face-to-face communication, eye gaze is known to play various roles such as managing the attention of interlocutors, expressing intimacy, exercising social control, highlighting particular speech content and coordinating floor apportionment. In second language (L2) communication, one's perception of eye gaze is expected to have more importance than in native language (L1) because eye gaze can be used to partially compensate for the deficiencies of verbal expressions. This paper examines the efficiency of eye gaze for floor apportionment through quantitative analyses of eye gaze during three-party conversations in L1 and L2. The authors analyze the average ratios at which the participant to whom the speaker gazes takes the floor according to the duration of pauses between two consecutive utterances. The analysis results show that this ratio decreases as the duration of a pause becomes longer in L1 conversations, whereas the gazed-at participant often takes the floor even after a longer duration of pause in L2 conversations. This suggests that the effect of the speaker's eye gaze decreased when the duration of pause was prolonged in L1 conversations, whereas this effect was maintained in L2 conversations.

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