Improtance of Vocab in Context
Vocabulary in context is a very important reading skill. Mastering this skill ensures better comprehension, better reading fluency and better reading speed.
Who takes this Course?
This course is designed to help learners of English as a second/foreign language looking for ways to imporive their reading skills and expand their vocabulary knowledge! Although this site can benenfit all ESL learners, learning vocabulary in context as a skill is usualy aimed for upper-intermediate and advanced learners.
What is to be learned?
By taking this course, you will have the chance tp learn how to use the four most common context clues to help you figure out the meaning of unfamilair vocabulary. The four context clues are: examples, synonyms, antonyms, and the general sense of the text.
How to incorporate?
If you are an ESL student you can use this website as a supplement to your reading class. The lessons, games, activities and quizzes will help learn new vocabulary that you can then use in your regular classes.