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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. Los hablantes del ingles como lengua extranjera frecuentemente usan palabras en exceso cuando enfrentan situaciones dificiles. Hablantes nativos utilizan un excesivo numero de palabras para expresar, por ejemplo, gratitud y disculpas cuando un simple gracias o lo siento no transmite completamente los sentimientos del interlocutor. Este articulo examina el uso excesivo de palabras por alumnos con un nivel avanzado de ingles al enfrentarse a situaciones dificiles. Al responder un cuestionario de completacion, alumnos universitarios en Guadalajara, Mexico, usaron estrategias conciliadoras, interrogatorias y argumentativas para resolver dos situaciones especificas. Los resultados indican que un uso excesivo de palabras fue utilizado pero en formas comunicativamente ineficaces y reflejan un area donde los profesores pueden ayudar a los alumnos a desarrollar competencias comunicativas.

When Students Say Far Too Much: Examining Gushing in the ELT Classroom