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“Filler” this sound expression seems nothing, but plays a very important role in utterance (speech or conversation). Speakers use fillers to fill up gaps and to smooth sentences in utterance. By observing a conversation, speakers use fillers frequently. This thesis is observing Japanese language learners’fillers usage at different steps from LARP at SCU(Language Acquisition Research Project at Soochow University). The purpose of this thesis is to verify Japanese language learners’ fillers usage preference, and to compare each learners’ filler usage to native Japanese speakers’. This thesis is divided into 5 chapters. Chapter one introduces the motivation, the purpose and the study method of this research. Chapter two shows antecedent researches of fillers from Japanese linguistic study and Japanese education study. Those help author to redefine the definition of filler and to build up verification standers. Author addresses problems from antecedent researches. Chapter three explains study method including how to distinguish filler in utterance, survey subjects and collected data. Chapter four analyzes and summarizes the survey date. It tells filler usage preference and intendancy of six Japanese language learners. Furthermore, author combines each individual’s survey data into comprehensive study. Chapter five concludes filler usage intendancy of Japanese language learners, and inspects how recent textbook mention about filler and arrange the order of fillers from content. Finally, author proposes a suggestion to Japanese education study and a direction for future study.
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