浅谈提高阅读能力的技巧(1)(5)
2016-07-08 01:03
导读：Writers use at least six kinds of context clues: experience, example, summary, synonym or restatement, typography and comparison and /or contrast. As readers, they need to know if the clues are used,
Writers use at least six kinds of context clues: experience, example, summary, synonym or restatement, typography and comparison and /or contrast. As readers, they need to know if the clues are used, they can spot them when they read.3.3.1 Experience Clues
People have two kinds of experiences. Some are direct experiences. And the other kind of experiences are indirect---experiences through reading, watching television, or going to the movies. These are all learning experiences that provide clues to word meaning. Because readers know from their own experiences, they have a context to follow. “For example, we know about the chronometer and geography, customs and habits, faith, political structures and social regime, etc. of some countries, which can help us to understand the articles deeply and improve our ability of inferring or guessing the meaning of new words.” [9]R24
Example:
When my pineapple plant blooms, it develops a colorful inflorescence, which loses its flowers and turns into a fruit.
Using experience as context clue: Although readers may not know the meaning of the word “inflorescence”, they can tell from the sentence that an “inflorescence” is something that develops or appears on a plant, loses its flowers, and turns into a fruit. Probably they have never grown a pineapple plant, but their experience tells them this plant ought to be something like other fruit-bearing plants. The experience indicates that they develop flowers or blossoms that fall away and are replaced by the fruit. Therefore, by using their experience as a clue they can guess that the word “inflorescence” means “blossom.”
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