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

to express. Therefore, abandonment strategy was useful for me. My
communication was more efficient and fluent if I skipped some challenging
words.
Before I abandoned a word, there would be a “struggle process,” in which I
was looking for some other ways to explain it. Finally, I couldn’t find a way
to do it. So, I decided to abandon the message. My classmate noticed that I
was nervous when I was struggling thinking how I should illustrate. After I
abandoned the tough message, everyone in the same group of mine was much
more relaxed.
Jiun Sheng talked about how the insufficient time for considering how to resort to the
other strategy was a reason why the message abandonment strategy was used:
Once in a group discussion class, I observed that many of my classmates
abandoned high-level words because our teacher, Douglas (trainer), did not
give us sufficient time to discuss. My classmates were not able to figure out
how to explain some difficult words because the time length was not long
enough. At the moment that time was not enough, abandonment was
supportive.
Jiun Sheng perceived that in the situation when the time was sufficient for resorting
to the other strategies, he could not detect if the message abandonment had been
applied by his classmates:
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