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

Tien Long perceived that difficult topics should be avoided in order to prevent
abandoning difficult messages. He described that “message abandonment” was like
leaving a blank for unknown questions in the test:
Abandonment strategy was a strategy that I should rarely use. The method for
preventing abandonment of difficult messages was that I would avoid difficult
topics in the very beginning, so I would not come across a difficult word. If I
really had to say a word that I had not yet learned in English, I would use the
other strategies to explain. I did not think skipping it or escaping from it was
a positive attitude. It was like you should never leave a blank for a question
on your test sheet. We should always try to answer and try to achieve.
Tien Long described his perceptions in a special way:
Pei Pei Hu
Using message abandonment strategy is like when you jump over a huge
stone that is located in the middle of the road. Sometimes, you think it wastes
too much time and effort to move away the huge stone, so you perceive you
should just jump over it. However, you may not arrive at the destination when
you carelessly jump over the huge stone and make your legs hurt.
Pei Pei, in her first interview, pointed out that message abandonment released
her obsession, but she changed her mind and suggested that message abandonment
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