Techniques for guessing meaning

Özlem KAYA

okaya2@anadolu.edu.tr

Contents:

• Goals and objectives

• Guessing meaning from context strategies

• Examples

• Exercises

Goals & Objectives:

At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• guess the meaning of unknown words from the context of a text, and

• see the relation between different items within a text to get the meaning.

What does “guessing meaning from context” mean?

Guessing from context refers to the ability to infer the meaning of an

expression using contextual clues.