| Title: | Can university students correctly guess the meanings of unfamiliar words from the context? |
| Author: | Saleh Ramadan |
| Publication: | The Proceedings of the International Conference Globalization, Intercultural Dialogue and National Identity. Section: Language and Discourse, 1, p. 243-250 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-93691-3-5 |
| Editors: | Iulian Boldea |
| Publisher: | Arhipelag XXI Press |
| Place: | Tîrgu-Mureş |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | This study aimed at identifying to what extent the fourth year university students majoring in English can predict the meanings of the unfamiliar words through context correctly. To achieve this goal, a test on vocabulary guessing was administered to sixty students. The test papers were corrected and classified into four groups based on their cumulative averages in all the courses they have passed following the university grading system. This system goes as follows: from 60- 67.9 (acceptable); 68- 75.9 (good); 76- 83.9 (very good); and 84- 100 (excellent). Then ten papers were selected randomly for each level. The finding of the study, except the excellent group, showed that the students were not good in understanding the meanings of the unknown words correctly through context. The results also showed that the students in the four groups differ in their abilities to infer the meanings of the new words. The study also revealed that there was no correspondence between the student's level at the university and that in the guessing test. Based on these discouraging results, the researcher suggested some material for remedy. |
| Key words: | Guessing , Vocabulary , Meaning , Levels , Context , Inference |
| Language: | English |
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