Another researcher, Fraser (1991) reported that “some incidental L2 vocabulary learning
occurs in the course of reading for comprehension through the process of inferring word
meaning” from the context (p. 225). Learning context is really important for vocabulary
teaching and learning since meanings of some vocabulary items are ambiguous when isolated
(Sun & Dong, 2004). Even children when mastering their mother tongue learn new
vocabulary items from different reading and listening situations and contexts (Day, Omura &
Hiramatsu, 1991). The same is held to be true for foreign language vocabulary learning as
well.