Using Context Clues in Determining Contextual Meaning of Arabic Words
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Language context plays an important role in determining the meaning of a word. To understand its meaning, it is imperative that be considered. Today, many students have difficulty understanding Arabic words as they are unable to context. However, words, phrases or sentences text can serve guide clue unknown words. This termed clues. study aims identify how clues help determine contextual Their process analysed from critical discourse analysis perspective using three-dimensional model introduced by Fairclough (1989). was conducted questionnaire and interviews with twenty undergraduates studying language five Malaysian universities. Five were selected news texts quoted Arab portal al-Ra’i (http://alrai.com/); covering sports, economics, politics, social technology. The meanings, depending on sentence. Students must contextually stating guided them. findings show enhance their based sentence References
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عنوان ژورنال: Pertanika journal of social science and humanities
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0128-7702', '2231-8534']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47836/pjssh.29.2.31