Guessing vocabulary from context in reading texts
participants did the TAPs in their mother tongue
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participants did the TAPs in their mother tongue. When the success of the participants in contextual guessing was analyzed, it was evident that the successful guessers gave more correct responses to the target vocabulary in both the in-class and TAP reading tasks. This, as mentioned before, could be because of their efficacy in using the strategies. In addition, when the success of the participants in the two different tasks was compared, it was understood that, except for one successful guesser, all the participants were better at guessing in the TAP reading task. This could be explained by the nature of the texts and the target vocabulary, high density of the unknown words which affects the understanding of the possible available information in the surrounding context, the effect of thinking-aloud, and the number of times the same unknown word appeared in the texts. First, the nature of the target vocabulary and the text are among many factors that have an influence on the guessing success (Paribakht & Wesche, 1999; Parry, 1993 as cited in Nassaji, 2004). In the in-class reading task, the participants dealt with a reading passage which was about jobs. This topic might not have attracted them, as they were in their first year at the university and had no work 92 experience. However, the text used in the TAPs was about reading newspapers to improve the knowledge of English. Since all the participants were learning English, they might have found this topic more interesting and understandable. Second, as suggested in the literature, understanding most of the words in a text and the text as a whole is directly related with successful guessing (Hirsh & Nation, 1992; Laufer, 1988; Liu & Nation, 1985 as cited in Nassaji, 2004). If the density of unknown vocabulary is high, it becomes difficult to recognize the available clues in the surrounding context (Sternberg, 1987; Laufer, 1997). In the in-class reading task, the Download 0.63 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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