Educators recognize the need to think clearly about what they are doing in the large context of pupils and the society. ... Akinpelu (2005) asserts that pragmatism is a movement that represents the interest of ordinary people in their role. ...
We saw that even when R and W met words in the same contexts, their knowledge of the items grew substantially over the course of repeated encounters. We have also shown that R and W profited from meeting the words often, regardless of whether they were important to the story or occurred in information-rich contexts. ... In other words, without knowledge of this core vocabulary, reading a normal unsimplified English text is a laborious and painstaking exercise since the learner does not know enough words in surrounding contexts to work out the meanings of problem items. ...
