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The purpose of this paper is to analyze self-repair in the performance of Korean speaking test.
Self-repair means that a speaker recognizes the difference between the contents and expression of discourse by him/herself and repairs it. In this study, Fifty Chinese Korean learners performed five speaking test tasks, the features of which can be categorized into covert repair and overt repair. 50 speaking samples were collected and transcribed. Covert repair plays a role in making a natural progress by means of hesitates and simple repetition. Overt repairs are used for obvious communication by means of emphasis or supple mentation of preceding discourse with substitution and repetition repairs. This study explored in which categories self-repairs features appeared in the performance of speaking test tasks. It was found that most of covert repair produced in the order of speaking test tasks number task 5, task 2, task 3, task 4, task 1. And then overt repair produced in the order of tasks 1, task 2, task 4, task 3, task 5. It is hoped that research on self-repairs features will positively link to the related issues in Korean speaking test and material development.