In order to properly teach reading in English, teachers have to be good readers themselves – which means not only knowing the language but also having developed reading coping strategies, that is, the resources and abilities they can resort to so as to compensate for their insufficiency of linguistic competence.

Suppose that, while reading the article from bbc.com, you used contextual clues to get at the meaning of the word “tackle”(paragraphs 1 and 2), which you were not familiar with. You have then employed the coping strategy named