ry (but ? not sufficient) condition to move ? from stage i to stage i + 1 is that the acquirer understand input that contains i + 1, where "understand" means that the acquirer is focussed on the meaning and not the form of the message.РWe acquire, in other words, only when we understand language that contains structure that is "a little beyond" where we are now.РThe answer to this apparent paradox is that we use more than our petence to help us understand. We also use context, our knowledge of the world, our extra-linguistic information to help us understand language directed at us.Р1.Context Clue 1: definitionР Sometimes a writer knows that a word is unfamiliar or strange to many readers. To make the word easier to understand, the writer may include a definition of the word in a sentence.
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