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

IV. Restructuring
In an example quoted by Albrechtsen, Henriksen and
Faerch (1980), the learner gets around the word
daughter by restructuring his utterance: ‘… my
parents has I have er four elder sisters…’
In the following example the learner wants to express
that he is hungry.
E.g. L: my tummy – my tummy is – I have ( inaudible)
I must eat something.
IV. Restructuring
i. E.g. If something is er doesn’t work? ( out of order)
ii. E.g. I have to look after a machine if something is er doesn’t
work I have to well it’s not difficult because there’s only three
buttons. (Haastrup and Phillpson, 1983)
iii. E.g. I came down from twenty degrees- er I don’t know
how you say twe it was twenty degrees hot you know.
iv. E.g. So suddenly you have to plan your- all your whole day
you know
IV. Restructuring
Most of the strategies we shall discuss relate to
problems in the planning phase, some to
retrieval problems in the execution phase. And
restructuring is for resolving problems in both
the planning and the execution phase. ( Faerch
and Kasper, 1983)
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