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

could not be used because it made her communication stop in the middle. After the
first session of training, Pei Pei believed message abandonment should be helpful:
Message abandonment was a method that suggests my not to be obsessed in a
difficult meaning. I didn’t need to take unnecessary pains to figure out a
difficult meaning after I decided to give up. I believed that it was an efficient
strategy in communication.
However, in the second interview, Pei Pei thought abandoning a meaning, especially
a key meaning, could make a communication stop in the middle:
In my learning experience, message abandonment strategy sometimes
discontinued my talking when I abandoned an important word. It was just like
if you didn’t know a key word of an article, you couldn’t realize what the
article was about. Therefore, I usually checked difficult words in my
dictionary without ignoring any word. During communication, I would
suggest learners annotating each word associated with intended meaning
instead of leaving them undone.
Additionally, Pei Pei revealed that the idea of “not to abandon any intended
meaning” was actually inspired by one of her English teachers in senior high school.
This teacher distributed to the class countless articles containing numerous new
words that she had not learned yet. Her teacher told her and her classmates to read
these articles thoroughly and check meanings of each unknown word. Pei Pei’s
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