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

the meaning could be received, any kind of newly made word should be
acceptable.
Similarly, when my partners made new words, I would guess what they
intended to express, and I would tell them what the correct words were. I
perceived that after a new word was made, the information of appealing for
help was also expressed. In class, I benefited from “word coinage,” because I
had learned some new words this way. This contributed to both my
communication and language learning.
Jian Guo told the researcher that he was accustomed to speaking and
analyzing the language from a scientific view. Jian Guo’s major was Hospitality
Management, so he would use interlanguage based on the scientific way he had
learned. For example, Jian Guo was capable at expressing the subjects of plants and
animals based on their classification methods.
Tien Long Lee
Tien Long did not provide a position on interlanguage. However, he had
many perceptions about it. Tien Long expressed that he recognized that interlanguage
was a suitable strategy of introducing Taiwanese culture. Tien Long observed that he
did not use “word coinage,” although he had heard many examples from his
classmates. Additionally, he believed that the ability to react and a person’s
knowledge were factors of how well s/he could apply “paragraph.” He believed that
“restructuring” was acceptable in a situation of language learning.
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After 10 weeks of training, Tien Long gave examples that he had generated in