Inferencing new words’meanings from context is identified as a key vocabulary learning skill and one of the three principal strategies for handling low-frequency words(Nation,1990).It is also considered an effective ...Inferencing new words’meanings from context is identified as a key vocabulary learning skill and one of the three principal strategies for handling low-frequency words(Nation,1990).It is also considered an effective reading skill.This paper tends to discuss its positive pedagogical implication to Chinese university students.By discussing the two different teaching Procedures of Clarke and Nation’s(1980)and Bruton and Samuda’s(1981),a practical instruction of the strategy is proposed.Nevertheless,the strategy’s limitations are taken into account as well in the final part.展开更多
文摘Inferencing new words’meanings from context is identified as a key vocabulary learning skill and one of the three principal strategies for handling low-frequency words(Nation,1990).It is also considered an effective reading skill.This paper tends to discuss its positive pedagogical implication to Chinese university students.By discussing the two different teaching Procedures of Clarke and Nation’s(1980)and Bruton and Samuda’s(1981),a practical instruction of the strategy is proposed.Nevertheless,the strategy’s limitations are taken into account as well in the final part.
