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

ackgrounds and gender difference in communication did provide evidence for
“intentionality” that Faerch and Kasper had argued. The following four cases
showing how students chose the strategies explain why the “intentionality” of
selecting a certain strategy exists in the communication.
First, Jian Guo stated how he intended to systemize and manage numerous
learned skills in order to reach his purpose of expressing himself. In the fourth
findings, Jian Guo described how he always combined the usages of interlanguage
strategy and cooperation strategy in order to attain a fully comprehensive input
during communication. Jian Guo felt that the routine processes he had completed for
attaining the comprehensive communication were as follows. First, he would make a
comprehension check through cooperation strategy whenever encountering a
situation where he received a vague message created through interlanguage by his
partners. Second, he would tell what the vocabulary was to his partners who
expressed it vaguely in order to achieve a purpose of learning together. Jain Guo’s
intentionality appearing in communication was that he always chose to use the
cooperation strategy to react to a condition where a vague meaning existed in the
conversation.
Cheng Chih described how his newly created words displayed his intention
that he would translate Chinese to English whenever he talked to people who were
from a Chinese background. Cheng Chih implied that the English speakers of
Chinese societies, such as Taiwan, China, or Singapore, would be accustomed to
using the interlanguage strategy analytically and automatically because of following
the ancestor’s methods of creating words.
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Inspired by Cheng Chih’s perceptions and Faerch and Kasper’s theory of