期刊名称：Annual Review of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
电子版ISSN：1743-159X
出版年度：2013
卷号：10
页码：130-146
出版社：Newcastle University
摘要：Teaching vocabulary has been mistreated due to the allegation that learners will attain the lexical items through learning without the need to focus on them explicitly. However, by the advent of new pedagogical approaches, different strategies that take account of teaching vocabulary have emerged. One of these strategies is the learner's ability to infer the meaning of words from the context. In this paper, an attempt is made to review the trends in the area of teaching and learning vocabulary through guessing the meaning of words from the context. A review of the literature regarding this strategy is presented. Then, variables which might affect applying the strategy are discussed. After that, recommendations on how to apply this strategy efficiently followed by an evaluation of its merits and shortcomings are given. Finally, proposals on how to employ this strategy pedagogically are suggested with a brief illustration on current course books and their support of this strategy
