2. • Unidad 5
• 5.1 word meaning form context
• Scientific studies have shown a definite relationship between a person’s vocabulary and his
success in school and later life. This topic will show you how to learn meanings of unfamiliar words
by seeing how they are used in context with words you already know. It will also introduce such
terms as variant meanings, synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, and roots; and explain how
they give clues to meaning.
• The context of a word is the sentece or group of sentences in which the word appears. There are a
number of ways in which the context will give you a clue.
• The role of context in the interpretation of a linguistic unit has long been considered, even if from
different perspectives: from the view that regards context as an extralinguistic feature, to the
position that meaning is only meaning in use and therefore, pragmatics and semantics are
inseparable. Still, context, both linguistic and situational, is often considered as an a posteriori
factor in linguistic analysis. However, when language is studied in use, context always comes
first, directing the process of meaning construction from the very beginning. In the present paper, a
case study will provide evidence for these claims.
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• At the end of the unit student will be able to know the meaning of any tyoe of work by using as
reference the whole sentence.
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• Learning objectives: this topic tend to make our students learn how to make the group od words
usefull to create a correct meaning for a word that is not known by the student.
3. • 5.2The use of context for a better understanding
• Firs of all we need to know What context stands for?
• Sometimes context has been conceptualized rather narrowly, as the words surrounding a particular word in
question, within a sentence or phrase. In the last three decades, though, it has become increasingly evident that context
means many things even the context relevant to reading just an individual word. Context includes the grammar of
sentences and the meanings of words; a paragraph; a whole story or other text. Context is also taken to include the
reader's expectations and purposes for reading; various aspects of the location and situation in which the person is
reading; and even the person's culture and times in short, the reader's entire background of knowledge and experience
These various factors operate simultaneously for proficient readers; they usually operate quite unconsciously; and they
can affect the identification of single words as well as the reader's understanding of an entire text. The automatic use of
context of multiple contexts is a crucial part of the reading process, though most people don't realize it.
• From such observations as these, we can reasonably infer that proficient readers automatically use context—all kinds of
context—to predict ("think ahead"), and to try to correct when something doesn't sound right or isn't making sense
• This uniti try to explian the use of the context for a better understandin in a paragraph, news paper, summary etc, this
will helps pur student have a better poin of view in any type of reading, as well as it will help make reading more easilly
and quickly.
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• Units Objective: At the endo of this unit student will be able to have a better understandion how to apply strategies in
order to have a better understanding form using the context.
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• Learning objective: this unit will help our student use the context to comprehend the whole paragraph.
4. 5.3 Clues to lear word meanings.
• You know that a large vocabulary is very useful. It helps you talk more interestingly and
• makes a good impression on other people. It helps you read faster and with more
• understanding. And it has also been found that your power to think clearly grows as your
• knowledge of words grows.
• Does that mean that you should keep a dictionary chained to your wrist to look up new
• words you hear or read? It’s one way. But there is another way to learn new words. You
• have used it all your life
• If you choose the last method, you are trying to learn from context clues. Each time you
• hear or read a word in a different sentence, you get more information about what it
• means. Finally, you have an idea in your mind about what the word means. You have
• learned from the context of the word. The context is simply the words or ideas around
• your unknown word. Using context clues as your read is important for two reasons.
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• You know that a large vocabulary is very useful. It helps you talk more interestingly and makes a good impression on other people. It
helps you read faster and with more understanding. And it has also been found that your power to think clearly grows as your
knowledge of words grows in this units we want to explain how to learn word meanig and this will help our customer remind more works
and adquire more vocabulary.
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• Unit objective, student will be able to lear more vocabulary and know by hard the meaning of that word, after that he will apply it in real
context.
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• Learing objectives: student will be able to adquire more vocabulary
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