Conclusion
First, the VLSs are divided into two major groups: strategies for the discovery of a
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new word’s meaning (comprehension strategies) and strategies for consolidating a
word once it has been encountered (learning/acquisition strategies). Comprehension
strategies included determination strategies and transactional strategies.
Determination strategies are divided into three main substrategies: guessing meaning
from the context, word analysis and looking up the word in the dictionary. With
regard to transactional strategies, since asking the meaning from the teacher or
classmates was not the way by which words were learned in social interactions, this
strategy was called transactional strategy.