Case

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1. The teacher focuses on too much on perfectionism. This hinders mutual intelligibility. Different accents may cause some hardship.

ELF pedagogy can help students. Translanguaging may be harder among different languages because it is really different in Egyptian language or German language. However, translangusging may help in terms of variations of English. For example, Canadian English and Indian English, we should respect these varieties. Embracing differences in the language so that we can be mutually intelligible.
Unwillingness to speak, anxiety, undermines confidences, restrict comprehension aids
By allowing them to speak home language when they needed.
Respect diversity of different languages. Mutual intelligibility.
1. Give chance to express. Nonverbal language, body language. Also, visual espression. Home language. Mother language. Any type of support. İntroduce ELF and say that English has many different ways to speak. This experience is related to this topic.
2. I used to feel that pressure, but that changed positively in my university times.
3. That happens really often. We use French and Turkish words sometimes.
4. Some of us write journal in English, and so, it is great in terms of expressing ourselves. It makes ourselves more connected to ourselves.
5. Translanguaging English as a lingua franca.

Activities

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Idiomatic words like piece of cake, not my cup of tea
Expressing idiomatic words with translation in their mother tongue by creating maps.
Explaining these idiomatic words with pictures.
We can use translanguaging, one strategy could be draw the meaning of the word.
The student remember words better with the pictures or visual materials like body language and pictures.