Achieving the goal of building consensus requires not only the ability to
express opinions, but also the ability to respond. This study is based on
Taiwanese-Japanese contact situation, which focuses on responses to assertions
and expressions of opinion in consensus-building discourse, and illustrates
commonalities and differences between learners' and native speakers' responses
to utterances.
The analysis results showed that both learners and native speakers tended
to use a variety of response utterances to express themselves, but preferred to
use different types of response utterances. It shows that learners tend to use
“information provision” and “showing attention”, while native speakers tend to
use “opinion request” and “refine”. The results can be applied to conversation
education, and is expected to achieve the purpose of building consensus more
effectively.