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

expressed their intentions very quickly.
Jian Guo Huang
Jian Guo addressed that he would try avoiding using the message
abandonment strategy. Through several ways, Jian Guo believed that he would be
able to avoid using this strategy which he did not strongly support.
Jian Guo’s tips of avoiding using abandonment strategy were as follows:
Talking to the right people made me use the abandonment strategy less,
because they helped me express my intended meaning in an easier way. For
example, if I talked to students from the same college as mine, I was able to
express my intended meaning with high-level vocabularies associated with
the knowledge of my major, which also were words my partners were
familiar with. Because our expertise was similar, we seldom encountered
words we both did not know. Therefore, I was free to talk, without worrying I
might encounter a difficult word out from my acquaintances.
However, if I talked to people from a different college, I encountered difficult
words I had to abandon because we had different knowledge backgrounds.
Therefore, I believed choosing the right subjects and topic in English
communication was important because I did not really think abandoning a
word in communication was a way I should follow. I would rather try to talk
to people who had similar interests as mine.
Jian Guo told the researcher his reason why he had said he would select
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