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3. Guessing Strategies
a Use background knowledge Table 3.a
No. Statement
1 Strongly
Agree 2
Agree 3
Disagree 4
Strongly Disagree
16 I skip words I don’t understand
7 12 10
17 38 66
3 5
17 I use my experience and
common sense to guess 11
19 32 55 14
24 1
2 18
I guess the meaning and then look at the dictionary when I
meet new words in reading 14
24 31 53 12
21 1
2 The data above showed that a majority of the students 74 used their background
knowledge such as experiences and common sense in guessing the meaning of the words; from table 3a number 17. About 71 of the students mentioned that they would not skip
unknown words unnecessarily while reading Table 3a, number 16 but rather would attempt to guess the meaning of these words 77 from table 3a number 18.
4. Dictionary strategies
Table 4 No.
Statement 1
Strongly Agree
2 Agree
3 Disagree
4 Strongly
Disagree 19 I use an English dictionary
14 24 42 72 2
4 20 I use a bilingual dictionary
17 29 39 67 2
4 21
I use the dictionary to find only the meaning of the word
16 28 35 60 7
12 22
I use the dictionary to find the appropriate usage example
sentence of the word 6
10 49 85 3
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One of the ways that students do to identify the meaning of the word is through dictionaries. The data revealed that almost all students 96 claimed to use an English
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dictionary Table 4, number 19. At the same time also almost all students 96 mentioned that they also referred to the Indonesian-English dictionary Table 4, number 20. There were
several purposes of using the dictionary. The highest score came from using the dictionary to find usages of the word in context 55 students on the table 4 number 22, and another is
finding meaning of the word 51 students from table 4 number 21. Most studies on the effectiveness of dictionaries in vocabulary learning have been conducted in L1 settings, and
most have compared dictionary definitions with contextual guessing. In general, results in these studies favored the contextual guessing approach Crist, 1981; Crist Petrone, 1977;
Gipe, 1978. Knight 1994, also discovered that while incidental vocabulary learning through contextual guessing did take place, those who used a dictionary as well as guessed through
context not only learned more words immediately after reading but also remembered more after two weeks.
5. Note Taking Strategies
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