Reading newspaper for learning vocabulary  

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Suteja, Hanna

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 17: Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Ketujuh Belas Tingkat Internasional, page 180-183.
Topik: vocabulary; learning strategies; guessing; context; newspaper article
Fulltext: 180-183.Hanna Suteja.pdf (356.89KB)

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Compared to learning grammar, which is relatively limited in terms of numbers of patterns and rules, learning vocabulary in a foreign language is unlimited and never-ending. Therefore, teachers and learners need to find an effective way to deal with this task. A lot of studies offer various strategies to teach and learn vocabulary. One common strategy is guessing the meaning of unknown words through context. In terms of context, newspapers offer unlimited authentic material which is available and accessible for most people in this digital era. Moreover, newspapers provide the updated world knowledge which is necessary for college students to embrace their world, locally and internationally. At the same time newspapers also give them cheap resources for language learning especially for acquiring vocabulary and improving reading skills. This study particularly aims at investigating the effectiveness of guessing unknown words through reading English newspaper articles for the first year Indonesian university students. The subjects are assigned randomly in the control and experimental groups. The control group read only the English article and the experimental group read both the English and Indonesian ones on the same topic but not the exact translated version. After reading the articles, both groups have to guess the meaning of the target words in the English article and answer the questionnaires. The questionnaire consists of two parts. The first part of the questionnaire has eight questions to test whether the subjects can guess the meaning of the target words correctly. The second part of the questionnaire is to probe the subjects’ responses on the obstacles they meet in guessing the unknown words through context. Employing descriptive statistic, the collected data will be analyzed in order to explain the result of their test. This study is expected to shed light on how guessing unknown words through context as one vocabulary learning strategy can be conducted more effectively to support teaching and learning a foreign language.

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