One of the issues which is of utmost importance in teaching words in context is guessing. There are also various studies which have investigated second language learners’ guessing from context. Bensoussan and Laufer (1984), for example, studied second language learners’ levels of proficiency and word guessability from the context. Sixty first-year students were given a list of 70 words to translate into their first language. A week later, they were given the same list with a text containing all 70 words followed by comprehension questions. Bensoussan and Laufer conclude that level of proficiency has no effect on the ability to guess meanings of unfamiliar words. They also concluded that word guessability is less a function of using context than of applying "preconceived notions" about the meanings of words