263. Be audacious: You'll beat it!

One day teacher B said to teacher A,

"Rebecca Oxford, on her book about learning strategies, she refers to intelligently understanding a message.

I'm worried some of my learners might not understand what I say in the class-period.

I think it's more simple to understand things they can see written on the whiteboard.

This lady talks about using clues to intelligently understand a message.

The clues are precisely the similarities between L1 and L2.

I told you the reference of her book some posts before this one.

She gives this example.

The students see association sans but lucratif, in French.

And they can understand it from the similarities with some English words. Sans can sound or can be figured out as sin in Spanish, without in English, maybe because the learners already know these words.

Furtherly we have lucrative in English.

Summing up, the point is that they can kind of figure out the meaning."

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