Pre-Service Teachers' Use of Frustration to Enhance Communication

CONFIDENCE: CHANGES TO SELF • Students learned to adjust their linguistic register. • They were forced to recognize and modify the plethora of idioms in their everyday American speech • “acting out” (for misbehaving) • “blurting out” (for speaking without being recognized by the teacher) • “to change words to make it less cultural and more universal.” • They accepted their mistakes with sensitivity, humor, patience, and humility . • “My personal language skills were not nearly as diverse as the majority of my students.” • [Adjusting my speech to terminology the students would understand] “is a humbling practice that requires a lot of patience”