When Students Say Far Too Much: Examining Gushing in the ELT Classroom
English foreign-language users often overuse words when faced with difficult situations. Called gushing, such excessive use of words is often legitimately employed by native speakers to express, for instance, gratitude and apologies when a simple thank you or sorry does not sufficiently convey an in...
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2015-07-01
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| description | English foreign-language users often overuse words when faced with difficult situations. Called gushing, such excessive use of words is often legitimately employed by native speakers to express, for instance, gratitude and apologies when a simple thank you or sorry does not sufficiently convey an interlocutor’s feelings. This paper examines the appropriateness and effectiveness of gushing when employed by advanced students facing difficult situations. Answering discourse completion tasks, students from a private university in Guadalajara, Mexico were asked to employ acquiescing, persisting, and aggressing strategies to resolve two particular situations. The results indicate that gushing was widely used, but in communicatively ineffective ways, reflecting an area where teachers can help develop students’ communicative competencies. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b493a0fc0d254482a8cc9ada53ccb57b2025-08-20T03:39:22ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07901657-07902015-07-01172101110http://dx.doi.org/10.15446/profile.v17n2.44375When Students Say Far Too Much: Examining Gushing in the ELT ClassroomGerrard Mugford0Oscar Ramírez Cuevas1Universidad de GuadalajaraUniversidad de GuadalajaraEnglish foreign-language users often overuse words when faced with difficult situations. Called gushing, such excessive use of words is often legitimately employed by native speakers to express, for instance, gratitude and apologies when a simple thank you or sorry does not sufficiently convey an interlocutor’s feelings. This paper examines the appropriateness and effectiveness of gushing when employed by advanced students facing difficult situations. Answering discourse completion tasks, students from a private university in Guadalajara, Mexico were asked to employ acquiescing, persisting, and aggressing strategies to resolve two particular situations. The results indicate that gushing was widely used, but in communicatively ineffective ways, reflecting an area where teachers can help develop students’ communicative competencies.http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/44375Insinceritygushinglack of knowledgelanguage insecurityunnecessary reinforcement |
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| title | When Students Say Far Too Much: Examining Gushing in the ELT Classroom |
| title_full | When Students Say Far Too Much: Examining Gushing in the ELT Classroom |
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| title_short | When Students Say Far Too Much: Examining Gushing in the ELT Classroom |
| title_sort | when students say far too much examining gushing in the elt classroom |
| topic | Insincerity gushing lack of knowledge language insecurity unnecessary reinforcement |
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