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What is meant by contextual vocabulary acquisition?

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Question added by Dr Yasmeen Majeed , Trainer and HOD
Date Posted: 2015/02/16
Mohamed Magdy Ahmed El Demerdash
by Mohamed Magdy Ahmed El Demerdash , Internal Auditor, Quality Assurance Department , Giza Cable Industries

Contextual vocabulary acquisition is the active or deliberate acquisition of a meaning for an unknown word in a text by reasoning from textual clues, prior knowledge, and hypotheses developed from prior encounters with the word without external sources of help such as dictionaries or people.

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