Gender and Interruption in Conversation Made by EFL Students

Arbain, Arbain Gender and Interruption in Conversation Made by EFL Students. TESOL International Journal.

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Abstract

Interruption is defined as the act of resistance by a certain speaker in conversation caused by certain factors such as an eagerness to be powerful or the act of asking for clarification of the current speaker. The matter of interruption itself is influenced by many factors that cause it comes to the surface where gender is one of the crucial aspects in influencing the existence of interruption in the conversation. Conducting conversational analysis, the researchers investigated interruption occurred in morphology class of the third semester based on West and Zimmerman's Syntactic Measurement of Interruptions. 22 students were involved as the research subjects who are grouped into three. Each group consists of male and female students. The researchers also focused on interruption which occurred 1) before the speaker making the first point, 2) after the speaker making the first point, 3) in mid-clause after the first point, and 4) after a pause or other turn ending signal. Having analyzed two-hour video records of students’ discussion, it is found that females interrupted more than males in mixed group gender. They tend to interrupt after the speaker making their first point and in mid-clause, after the first point was made acted as confirmation, conclusion, or completion of the speaker's idea. The findings support a previous study regarding with situation where interruption occurred when male and female speakers as the main speaker.

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