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

III. Word Coinage: Make Up a New
Word
A word-coinage strategy involves the learner in an
creative construction of a new IL word ( cf. Varadi’s
‘airball’ for ‘balloon’ )
E.g. L: we were sitting in the –”rounding” of the
stadium ( it should be the “curve” of the stadium)
E.g. ‘No shell mollusk on ground’ for ‘slug’
E.g. ‘A Woman whose husband died’ for ‘widow’
E.g. ‘sky army’ for ‘air force’ & ‘sea army’ for ‘navy’
E.g. ‘deep deep mood’ for ‘depression’
III. Word Coinage: Make Up a New
Word
E.g. ‘new science’ for ‘technology’
E.g. ‘Jesus follower’ for ‘Christian’
E.g. ‘ chose class and pay money’ for ‘register’
E.g. ‘ country people’ for ‘ country folk’
E.g. ‘clothing flat machine’ for ‘iron’
E.g. ‘kill ant poison’ for ‘pesticide’
E.g. ‘plant food’ for ‘fertilizer’
E.g. ‘all you can eat’ for ‘buffet’
IV. Restructuring
A restructuring strategy is used whenever the
learner realizes that he cannot complete a
local plan which he has already begun
realizing and develops an alternative local plan
which enables him to communicate his
intended message without reduction( c.f.
‘message abandonment’, which can be
considered the reductional parallel to
restructuring).
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