摘要：AbstractThe study aimed to find out how well 8–13-year-old pupils are able to derive word meaning from written context. For this purpose, 742 pupils studying in second, third, fourth, and sixth grade read a narrative or/and an expository text and explained the words underlined in the text. The results show that several pupils could not take advantage of the clues in the text. They often gave meanings that a word has in some other context. Therefore, they should learn strategies that a reader can use when deriving the meaning of a new word from written context.
关键词：Deriving word meaning from context;reading comprehension;primary school pupils
