In this study, lexical intervention taught students a number of related lexical items that assisted them in processing the incoming stream of speech to a higher degree of accuracy. This intervention also resulted in a greater amount of free cognitive space from quick decoding, allowing for the activation and utilization of strategies (e.g., intelligent guessing or inferencing) to facilitate student comprehension. As Student B stated, the vocabulary (both single items and multiword units) that he learned from lexical intervention helped him to understand more of the aural text instead of his usual method of unintelligently guessing the message using only the very limited number of words he knew