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Date Posted: 15:13:54 07/10/03 Thu
Author: Ana Carolina Gonçalves
Subject: TASK 10

TASK 10

Explain what Lexical Approach is. Describe its main characteristics.


Lexical fields represent knowledge in language, but there is much more to vocabulary than simple lists of words, nouns, or verbs. Lexical Approach consists of meaningful chunks that, when combined, produce continuous coherent text. Collocation is integrated as organizing principles within syllabuses.
The Lexical Approach can be summarized in a few words: Language consists not of traditional grammar and vocabulary, but often of multi-word prefabricated chunks. Teachers using the Lexical Approach will not analyse the target language in classroom, but will be more inclined to concentrate to learner attention upon these chunks.
By summarizing, here are the principles of the Lexical Approach:
· Collocation is used as an organizing principle
· The grammar/vocabulary dichotomy is invalid
· Language consists of grammatical lexis, not lexicalized grammar
· A central element of language teaching is rasing students awareness, and developing their ability to `chunk` language.


Ana Carolina Gonçalves
LET 076

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