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Date Posted: 05:40:58 07/14/03 Mon
Author: Danilo Cristófaro Alves da Silva
Subject: Re: task 10
In reply to: Myla Fonseca 's message, "task 10" on 14:41:15 07/09/03 Wed

Myla,
I wanted to ask you a question:
Do you or dou you not agree that this approach can actually make a diference to language teaching/learning?
I am not sure myself...

Danilo

>Communicative Approach On line Class
>Learner: Mylene Fonseca Garcia
>Task Ten
>
>Describe what the lexical approach is.
>
>
>Linguistic Michael Lewis coined the term lexical
>approach. It has influenced second language teaching
>because it has given this field a new direction such
>as redefinition of grammar and vocabulary, emphasis on
>collocation and new implications for methodologies. In
>general words, lexical approach states that a language
>“consists of grammaticalised lexis – not lexicalised
>grammar”. That is, it emphasizes on developing
>learner’s lexical competence which is learner’s
>ability to recognize, comprehend and produce lexical
>phrases “as unanalyzed wholes”, or chunks. This
>approach believes that language is formed by these
>relatively fixed expressions which occur in everyday
>language. Some examples would be I’m sorry, what time
>is it now?, I’ll be back, what day is today and the
>like.
>So, it proposes that learners would be able to learn
>these chunks rather than to learn isolated or
>separated grammar points. Enthusiastic teachers argue
>that “language consists of meaningful chunks that,
>when combined, produce continuous coherent text, and
>only a minority of spoken sentences are entirely novel
>creations”. Therefore, this sounds like a nice
>advantage for the SLT beginners, as they would learn
>whole units of contextualized applications. I mean,
>instead of facing an isolated term, they would deal
>with contextualized chunks that are already very
>common in the language. As Olga Moudraia points out
>“rather than trying to break things into ever smaller
>pieces, there is a conscious effort to see things in
>larger, more holistic ways.” Thus, this is why lexical
>approach focuses so emphatically on collocations,
>words and the use of vocabulary. In other words, these
>are the language’s constituents. It’s responsible for
>noticing and recording language patters (phrases and
>sentence frames) and collocations. So, it proposes a
>different syllabus content to the class which is based
>on lexical rather than grammatical principles.
>To conclude, still according to Moudraia, the use of
>lexical approach does not lead to radical
>methodological changes. It involves a change of
>perception, first towards the teacher, then, towards
>the learners. It should deal with authentic examples
>of language as naturally as possible, raising
>learner’s awareness of the lexical attributes of
>language.

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