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This paper examines a coordinate conjunction and in EFL learners' unplanned spoken discourse to look at how the learners use and in the spoken discourse. According to Biber et al., (1999), and is the most common coordinator in all the register. And it has been argued that and has multifunctions (Schiffrin, 1986; Celce-Murcia & Larsen-Freeman, 1999). And found in the EFL learners spoken discourse of the present study is also multifunctional. First of all, and is used to link between clauses to simply add a text to another in a discourse. Secondly, and is used to mark ‘internal sequence’ (Halliday & Hasan, 1976) in that it indicates ‘next in a series (of things to be said). In other words, it denotes the next thing I want to say (know) is. Third, and is used as a boundary marker in that it signposts the beginning and the ending of a new (or sub-) topic. Lastly, and occurs with hesitation markers frequently indicating the speaker has more to say but cannot come up with what to say next immediately.