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This paper presents the analysis on the language use of non-native (L2) Japanese speakers with focus on their proficiency in group discussion conversations. Due to the demographic development the necessity to close the resulting gap with foreign employees/workers and thus, non-native speakers is increasing. This work is based on a corpus collected in an experiment which acquired multimodal sensory data in collaborative tasks with unbalanced mixed setup, composed of one none-native speaker and three native (L1) speakers. Each group was given the task to discuss two topics and find a joint decision. This work aims to find the insights how the proficiency of the speakers and the difference in being a native or non-native speakers changes the used vocabulary and decision-making process, which will later be a major issue to ensure an efficient work of such mixed groups. The analysis is based on findings of a total number of seven groups and thus seven L2 speakers. The analysis is on the activeness of the participants during the discussion, the variety of their vocabularies, and language familiarity on using modifier and oral-only expressions based on the results of POS (part of speech) analysis. The results show the characteristics which can be used in automatic assessment on proficiency level.
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Huang, HH. (2023). Analysis on the Language Use of L2 Japanese Speakers Regarding to Their Proficiency in Group Discussion Conversations. In: Coman, A., Vasilache, S. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14025. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35915-6_5
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