Vocabulary deduction strategies
What Vocabulary deduction strategies means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reversing the process allows students to deduce that ammissione relates to admission, and mentally substituting '-dm-' for '-mm-' checks for a familiar English cognate.
Recognising common spelling patterns between English and Italian as a strategy for deducing the meaning of unfamiliar nouns.
Identifying the shared root lets learners infer the meaning of one word if they know the other.
Topics that use Vocabulary deduction strategies
- Using common patterns between Italian and English - Nouns (AQA GCSE)
- Using common patterns within Italian (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Adjectival agreement
- Adjective agreement
- Noun gender and number
- Reading comprehension strategies
- Suffixes and word formation
- Vocabulary building
- Vocabulary building strategies
- Adjective modification
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