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

eplacement strategy was not easy for her. Sung Ru was nervous and stressful when
using the strategy. However, she offered examples of using this strategy:
For meaning replacement, it was difficult to say a simple word very quickly
when I just learned this strategy. In class, I would like to say “Mummy,” and I
was nervous and considered for a long while then said “Dead King.” It was
understandable. Douglas (trainer) said it could be interpreted as a “Preserved
Body.” You got to think very hard to use this strategy. For me, I must think
about the English grammatical structure before I said a simplified word.
Meaning replacement was extremely difficult for me.
When my teacher taught me to say an abstract word, I was so nervous and
had so much pressure. Some of my classmates used a lot of abstract words
that I could not understand, not only because their words were not accurate,
but because their pronunciations were not standard and their sound was too
weak. If their pronunciation could be clear, and they spoke in a slower pace,
or their grammatical structure could be more correct, then I would be able to
comprehend their abstract words.
In Sung Ru’s second interview, she perceived that many speeches created through
replacement strategy appeared in class group discussions. As in the first interview,
she was stressful when using this strategy but offered her correct examples of using
it.
My classmates and I tended to use the meaning replacement strategy
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