Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the fillers used by Japanese learners and consider how to teach them. On the basis of the dialogues between Korean learners of Japanese, Chinese learners of Japanese and native Japanese speakers, this study analyzed the fillers produced by learners comparing with natives. Unlike native Japanese speakers, learners of Japanese used several fillers in succession unnaturally because their usage of filler forms was limited even in case they used several fillers successively. The results suggest that it is necessary to teach how to combine several fillers and promote the use of derivative fillers.
