Guessing vocabulary from context in reading texts
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) news story of the day can be found in the upper right-hand corner of the 113 front page. Journalism students soon learn that ethical writing of hard news must be (11) artictive -- in other words, contain only facts, not the journalist’s opinion – and balanced (contain both sides of a story). In any good newspaper, opinion is clearly separated from hard news. Opinion appears in advice columns, in movie, TV, or book reviews, in editorials, and in letters to the editor. Most of the rest of the newspaper contains advertising. Advertisers pay for this space, and it is not the news. How to Get the Most Out of the Paper and Not Glurk All Day Doing It At this point, you are ready to start reading. When you read a newspaper – especially in a language new to you – it is almost impossible to begin on page one and read through the (12) wist page. Don’t even think of trying this. Instead, begin by throwing away the sections that you have no interest in. This makes the paper a good deal thinner. Next, (13) pretern the rest of the paper. That is, briefly look over each section for articles that especially interest you. Then go to the front page. On this page, read each predpine – the title of every article. You might be surprised by how much you can learn from just the predpines. Then, for each of these articles, read only the first paragraph or two. This is where you will find the reminent information: who, what, when, where, why. Then you can move on to a section that interests you, such as entertainment, business, or sports. Last, you might look for some small piece of information that you need at the moment – the weather (14) sidelt or where a certain movie is playing. Most reminent – don’t worry too much about vocabulary. Guess the meaning from the context and use a dictionary for only a few words. If you read the paper several times a week, you will discover many of the same words appearing again and again. 114 Write a synonym for the following words: 1- pracks: 2- danding: 3- chaningly: 4- glurk: 5- adant: 6- predpines: 7- bissip: 8- hatal: 9- mintends: 10- reminent: 11- artictive: 12- wist: 13- pretern: 14- sidelt: 115 APPENDIX D TRAINING SESSION TALK (ENGLISH VERSION) In this study, I am investigating the strategies students use to guess the meanings of unknown words encountered when reading English texts. For this reason, I am asking you to think aloud, that is, to say whatever comes to your mind while you are trying to guess the meaning of the vocabulary written in bold in the text I am going to give you. Do not hesitate to verbalize whatever goes through your mind even if they seem irrelevant to you. When you are reading the text and guessing the word meanings, behave as if I were not in the room. Suppose that you are in your room, studying and do whatever you do when you encounter unknown words in any English text. I am not interested in how successful you are in guessing word meanings. For this reason, do not be afraid of saying whatever comes to your mind. As you are reading and guessing the word meanings, I will not interrupt you. However, if you stay silent for more than 15 seconds, I will warn you to report your thoughts. Please reflect your thoughts without stopping. Now, before starting the main study, I will demonstrate you how this technique is applied. Then, I will ask you to apply the same technique. When you are thinking aloud, you have the chance to choose to voice your thoughts in Turkish or English. 116 APPENDIX E TRAINING SESSION TALK (TURKISH VERSION) Bu çalışmada, öğrencilerin İngilizce metinleri okurken karşılaştıkları bilinmeyen kelimelerin anlamlarını tahmin edebilmek için hangi stratejileri kullandıklarını araştırıyorum. Bu amaçla, size vereceğim metinde kalın harflerle yazılmış kelimelerin ne anlama geldiğini tahmin etmeğe çalışırken sesli düşünmenizi, yani aklınıza gelen her şeyi söylemenizi rica ediyorum. Aklınızdan geçenler size ilgisiz görünse dahi, bunları dile getirmekte tereddüt etmeyin. Metni okurken ve kelimelerin anlamlarını tahmin ederken, ben odada yokmuşum gibi davranın. Kendinizi odanızda tek başınıza ders çalışıyor farzedin ve herhangi bir İ ngilizce metinde bilinmeyen kelimelerle karşılaştığınızda ne yapıyorsanız burada da aynısını yapın. Sizin kelimeleri tahmin etmekte ne kadar başarılı olduğunuzla ilgilenmiyorum. Bu nedenle aklınıza gelenleri söylemekten çekinmeyin. Siz okurken ve kelimeleri tahmin ederken ben hiç müdahale etmeyeceğim. Ancak 15 saniyeden fazla sessiz kalırsanız düşündüklerinizi aktarmanız için sizi uyaracağım. Lütfen, hiç durmaksızın düşüncelerinizi yansıtın. Şimdi, asıl çalışmaya başlamadan önce, ben size bu tekniğin nasıl uygulandığını göstereceğim. Daha sonra da sizden aynı tekniği uygulamanızı isteyeceğim. Sesli düşünürken, düşüncelerinizi Türkçe ya da İngilizce dile getirmek konusunda seçim şansına sahipsiniz. 117 APPENDIX F THE CODING SCHEME FOR THE CONTEXTUAL GUESSING STRATEGIES INCLUDED IN THE TAXONOMY /CC/ Contextual Clues /PS/ Download 0.63 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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