Disadvantages of context clues


There are some of disadvantages of context clues, among of them are

For beginner reader, it needs more time, The context clue sometime does not sufficient and leads the reader in misguessing, Depend from our background knowledge

a) For beginner reader, it needs more time

Context clues require extra creativity and flair course for beginners. Learning about the context clue is not easy. Novice readers tend to have mastered a lot of vocabulary. So it will be difficult for novices when they encounter unfamiliar words. Most will just skip it. Then continue reading until end. Nevertheless, for those readers who are critical they will be back on the words were and trying to find the meaning of those unfamiliar words. Context clue is the easiest way to guess of an unfamiliar word. However, for the beginner, this way will require a longer time. Process of identifying the problem and information are two big deals that make the beginner needs more time. More over the process of determining the meaning of the word, beginners are inclined not to mention in a single word. Most are still in descriptions or still in the form of phrases or sentences.


b) The context clue sometime does not sufficient and leads the reader in misguessing

The contexts in which unknown words are presented in text are not always helpful and, in some cases, can mislead students into making false inferences about word meanings. Negative learning probabilities have been attributed to misleading contexts within the stories read aloud to young children, and lack of contextual support hindered high school students who tried to derive the meaning of rare words in naturally occurring text.

Manipulating the text to increase word learning has had mixed results. Some studies indicate that text revised to be more considerate, or to provide more useful contextual information, can produce significantly higher scores on measures of word learning. A high density of unknown words in a text was found to obstruct incidental word learning.


c) Depend from our background knowledge.


Intelligence factor makes it especially needs to be considered in the use of context clues. In addition, the limitations of the information or information which is provided by the author is less adequate. The use of this approach also depends on our background knowledge. The more information we know, the more information we can apply in informations that already exists on sentence or textbook that contains some unfamiliar words.



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