contextualization
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7.2
- noun
- /kənˌtɛkstəwələˈzeɪʃən/
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contextualización
- The contextualization of historical events helps students appreciate their significance.
- contextualization of basic skills
- form of contextualization
- historical contextualization
Examples
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Even at the level of single words, rich contextualization can take place.
Academic text (1990) -
Provide ongoing professional development led by experienced trainers, coaches, and mentors to initiate and support contextualization.
Academic text (2011) -
However, it must begin with a contextualization of the private rather than the public domain.
Academic text (1997) -
Indeed, the selection of this context is perhaps the greatest challenge to contextualization.
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Most of the studies of contextualization in college settings have serious limitations.
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Furthermore, there is very little information on cost or what would be needed to scale up contextualization.
Academic text (2011) -
Identification of studies literature was sought that focused on contextualization as a form of instruction in reading, writing, or mathematics.
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Exactly how could this technology foster the contextualization that historians purportedly value?
Academic text (1998) -
The chapter on discourse and purpose reviews speech act theory, contextualization cues, and rhetorical approaches to discourse analysis.
Academic text (2002) -
Teachers often use contextualization to make complex subjects easier for students to understand.
Synonyms
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1.0
A statement that makes something clear or helps someone understand
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4.4
An explanation of what something means
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3.3
An explanation that makes something easier to understand
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4.8
A way of explaining the meaning of words or texts
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4.9
Adding more detail or explanation to something
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7.4
An explanation of something that is hard to understand
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5.3
A clear explanation that makes something easier to understand
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8.1
A clear, detailed explanation that helps you understand a text or idea
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4.1
Giving the meaning of something that is not clear
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7.5
To make something clear by removing confusion about its meaning
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5.6
Making a difficult idea easier to understand by explaining it clearly
A way of explaining a word by showing how people use it in a sentence
Putting something into a new situation to give it a different meaning
How Contextualized
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1.0
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7.2
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3.2
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- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
contextualization = contextualize (transparent) = context + ual + ize + ation
A straightforward nominalization of the verb 'contextualize' (context -> contextual -> contextualize -> contextualization) meaning 'the act or process of contextualizing'.
Etymology
Contextualization comes from the word context, which originally meant 'woven together' and is the same root as text, so to contextualize something is to place it among its surrounding 'threads' to make it easier to understand.