Investigating Efl Students’ Attitudes Towards The Effect Of Context Clues On Vocabulary Leaning

Résumé: Vocabulary is one of the most tricky and complex aspect to foreign language learners. It is a difficult aspect that demands great efforts from students and needs specific strategies that can be provided by teachers to achieve an acceptable level of vocabulary learning. Context clue then is one of the strategies that can guide learners to find out the meaning of complicated words. On this basis, the current study aims at investigating the effectiveness of context clues strategy use to help learners understand words meaning and improve their vocabulary learning. To achieve this aim, a question was raised in this study: Does context clues have an effect on EFL students' vocabulary learning? A questionnaire was given to third year EFL learners of the English department at Larbi Ben M'Hidi University to investigate their attitudes towards context clues effect on vocabulary learning. Relatively, a random sample of fifty students answered the questionnaire. On this basis, the findings obtained from this research indicate that context clues strategy has an efficient role in enhancing learners' vocabulary learning. Thus, the hypothesis was confirmed. In other words the use of context clues strategy can effectively facilitate the teaching-learning process and help students enhance their vocabulary learning.

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