Actually in English Non-native Speakers' Performances

Abstract

This study considers actually as a discourse marker and investigates it in non-native speakers' conversations. Also present study discusses what the common and different features of actually are displayed in NNSs' data as compared with native speakers' data. Like NSs' usages, actually in NNSs' data is displayed in three major types of sequential environments, informings, self-repair, and topic movement. This paper specifically looks into those three environments of actually in NNSs' conversations.