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

would exemplify horse and donkey by saying, “They both are mammals in a
same family, but in a different breed. “They can proliferate their later
generation, mule, which has no ability of giving birth.”
Jian Guo explained that he would be able to use “exemplification” in order to say the
specific words he did not know:
I would exemplify “Panda” and “Koala” by saying that “They were both
mammals.” Their difference was that “Koala is born in a suckle bag.” I would
describe this word from a view of biology,
Jian Guo perceived that among four strategies in interlanguage, the “generalization”
was the only one he did not accept:
I believed that “generalization” was not a perfect strategy because it did not
indicate the differences among things. The correct information could not
access the listeners with this strategy. I choose not to adopt this strategy.
Jian Guo believed that before his English could reach a higher level, “word coinage”
would be a helpful strategy that he needed to use:
As to “word coinage,” I believed that it was an adoptable strategy before my
English became good. The speech made was comprehensible. Additionally, I
obtained an opportunity of learning a newly word. I believed foreigners
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would not mind that the newly created word was non-native like. As long as