Interferencja leksykalna – ważna strategia czytelnicza w języku obcym

The text dwells on lexical inferencing and its role in foreign language learning. Lexical inference strategy is frequently recommended by teachers and researchers therefore in the text concentrates on various factors stimulating or inhibiting its use. It also describes various cues – interlingual, intralingual (morphological, grammatical, semantic) and contextual — which can aid readers to infer the meaning of unknown words. It also identifies some weaknesses in the lexical inferencing procedures of used by learners.