문맥상의 L2 어휘 학습연구: 학습 전략, 배경 지식을 사용한 학습연구를 통한 새로운 어휘 추론 전략 제시

Abstract

This study looks into the strategy and knowledge that students use for second language vocabulary inference. Using introspective and think-aloud protocol techniques, this study investigated learners' use of vocabulary knowledge in a context and their inference strategy. The participants of the study tried to infer the meaning of new vocabulary in context. The results of the study are as floows. First, even though the learners used commonly used strategy and knowledge to infer the meaning of new vocabulary in context, they did not always directly connected it via successful vocabulary inference. Second, different strategies brought successful vocabulary inference in different ways. Therefore, the participants used more various and newer strategies than the successful inference strategy that the existing studies show. In conclusion, when inferring vocabulary, this supports an inference model that distinguishes between an ability to use various knowledge effectively and a strategy. In addition, this study will discuss educational and theoretical results, as well as implications of the integrated vocabulary inference model. Moreover, it also mentions newly emerging inference strategies in vocabulary learning research, as well as a direction for future eduction on learning vocabulary in context using the inference strategy.