“YOU KNOW” AS A DISOURSE MARKER IN ENGLISH LEARNERS’ SPOKEN DISCOURSE: UM-SpEAKs

Abstract

Spoken language in English by native speakers is frequently colored with the use the discourse marker you know. However, to what extent this holds true with the English spoken language produced by Indonesian learners of English is far from clear. Therefore, this study was set out to investigate this phenomenon by analyzing the spoken corpus of UM-SpEAKs (Universitas Negeri Malang Spoken English in Academic Kontexts). This study analyzes the phenomenon and tries to explains by taking into account the contexts of the use of the discourse marker you know. The factors include, inter alia, gender and context of conversation.