SHORT UTTERANCES IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE CONVERSATION AMONG JAPANESE AND MALAYSIAN TOURIST GUIDES

Aizuchi, feedback and insertion are the 3 important elements ina japanese language conversation. aizuchi and feedback can becategorized as short utterance. this paper discussed short utterancein a conversation between native speakers and non-native speakersof japanese language based on writer’s research findings. this isbecause in general, students of universiti putra malaysia (upm)have problems in constructing a real-life conversation in japaneselanguage. this paper tried to analyze the conversational situationbetween two malaysian tour guides and two japanese tourists. theface-to-face conversation occured when the tour guides brought thetourists to aquaria klcc (g1&t1) and istana negara (g2&t2).this research intended to expose the conversation between theculture of native speaker and non-native speaker as a reference tostudents who are learning japanese language.