Confronted with texts, language learners may be
stuck by shortage of vocabulary inventory and thus be
unable to understand what texts are about. The first
thing that a learner does to understand a difficult word
is to look it up using the nearest dictionary. There are
however techniques learners may use to get the
meaning of such vocabulary items. One of these
techniques is guessing meaning from context.
No matter what level our students are in, they will often
come across difficult words in texts they are exposed
to.
Guessing meanings of unfamiliar words is a strategy which is worth developing. Guessing the meaning of unknown words from the context is really a very useful reading strategy. This strategy is also called:
Guessing meanings of unfamiliar words is a strategy which is worth developing. Guessing the meaning of unknown words from the context is really a very useful reading strategy. This strategy is also called:
