Language Use
Following on from the above point a teacher in a strong UA group or society may be expected to use academic language in the classroom. This could be perceived as an attempt to maintain the distance between herself and the students, maintaining superior status and protecting the student’s perceived role in the class. This will reduce role uncertainty, but my in fact createmore uncertainty of understanding, especially in the language classroom. In a weak UA group, the teacher is expected to use plain language when teaching. This plain language is not for reducing uncertainty but maintaining teacher status and may in fact be ambiguous in nature.