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

not predict for our interlocutors that there would be sudden changes happen in
the way.
In the second interview, Ling Mei believed that the “paraphrase” strategy was applied
by the business field most often. Also, she believed that teachers at school apply it to
demonstrate deeper concepts for students:
Some experts of professional fields also used “paraphrase” in order to
illustrate some terms quite often, not because they did not know the meaning
of a term, but because they would like to illustrate in-depth what the term was
for some people who were not familiar with his profession. Some English
teachers also used “paraphrase” to explain a new word for their students.
In the second interview, Ling Mei perceived that “generalization” and “paraphrase”
should be applied in teaching and learning situations:
Languages created through “generalization” and “paraphrase” were facilitated
languages. The words used through them were words that everybody could
understand easily. They could be used both in learning and teaching. They
built for me an impression that I was a person who was amiable and easy to
access. A teacher should apply these two communication strategies as
teaching strategies to make the difficult knowledge be absorbed by his
students easily and quickly.
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Ling Mei expounded that she perceived that cooperatively expressing a