A Dissertation by GRACE HUI-CHIN LIN Submitted to the Office of ...

Abandonment strategy saved my face in class discussion because I did not
have to describe a difficult meaning with my basic level English. Through
using it, I did not worry that my partner might laugh at me, or why I was not
able to express a very simple word when the word I explained to them turned
out to be a very simple word for them.
Sung Ru talked about why she tended to use this strategy many times. It was
because that she perceived the learning in the university was totally different from
how she learned in elementary school and high schools. From elementary school to
senior high school, Sung Ru could only sit in the class and listen to what teachers
taught her. Differently, she was requested to talk about her own opinions and
personal thoughts in class when she entered the university. The gap between senior
school and the university was too big; therefore, she tended to use the message
abandonment strategy in order to release her stress. Sung Ru believed she gradually
would know how to talk better and not to use message abandonment too frequently.
Jiun Sheng Chang
In the first interview, Jiun Sheng did not talk much about message
abandonment; while in the second interview, he expressed that message abandonment
cast away blocks in his communication. Jiun Sheng said that this strategy saved time
for him:
Whenever I came across a difficult word which I really thought was too
difficult to express, abandonment strategy was unavoidable. I couldn’t let my
whole communication be blocked just because of a single word I was not able
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