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In accordance with research of crosslinguistic influences occurring on the lexical level, which bears witness to a greater initial comprehension of unfamiliar foreign language vocabulary on the basis of crosslinguistic similarities (Browne, 1982; Palmberg, 1985; Ringbom, 2007; Jarvis & Pavlenko, 2008; Rast, 2008, 2010), we have focused on the role of cognates – semantically related …

This purpose of this paper is to view different aspects of learning strategy and of acquiring unknown words from the context, also known as ‘’the guessing strategy’’. The paper describes the value and efficiency of that strategy, as well as its advantages in relation to other methods of vocabulary acquisition. The reasons because of which …