unfamiliar word
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunfamiliarandword
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unfamiliar
adjective
uk/ʌn.fəˈmɪl.i.ər/us/ʌn.fəˈmɪl.i.jɚ/
not known ...
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word
noun
uk/wɜːd/us/wɝːd/
a single unit of language that has meaning and can be spoken ...
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(Definition ofunfamiliarandwordfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofunfamiliar word
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The total is based on 878unfamiliarwordencounters.
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On the page, theunfamiliarwordis often followed immediately by a phoneticised version in parentheses, and this information has to be absorbed on the run.
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This is important because a single exposure to anunfamiliarwordis not sufficient for full learning.
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This is probably functionally motivated, since adding an ending usually requires phonological adjustments which may make theunfamiliarworddifficult to recognize.
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Finally, offering children information about relations provides them with critical ways of connecting anunfamiliarwordto words they already know.
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Figure 2 further demonstrates that over all four time periods these participants were more successful in determiningunfamiliarwordmeaning when consulting than when inferencing.
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Thus, hearing two words (one familiar, one unfamiliar) explicitly contrasted in this way aids children in determining the referent of theunfamiliarword.
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Some modifications served to highlight theunfamiliarwordwhich could assist in segmenting theunfamiliarwordand mapping it to its referent.
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So readers looking up anunfamiliarwordin a dictionary may find, on seeing the pronunciation respelling, that the word is in fact already known to them orally.
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When a reader encounters anunfamiliarwordin print and decodes it to derive its spoken pronunciation, the reader understands the word if it is in the reader's spoken vocabulary.
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After clarification of any unfamiliar words, the students read the sentences onto tape.
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They were more likely to do so in known than in unfamiliar words.
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Try to understand the unfamiliar words in their context.
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Utilization of contextual information in determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.
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In light of word-recognition speed, significant training effects were found in both familiar and unfamiliar words.
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When do foreign-language readers look up the meaning of unfamiliar words?
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