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Date Posted: 04:59:09 07/10/03 Thu
Author: Rita Cristina Lopes
Subject: Task 10


The Lexical approach is a set of principles named by Michael Lewis in 1993. The main idea is that language consists of multi word prefabricated ‘chunks’. Language is produced by putting together these chunks or ready phrases that will be used in a particular situation. First the students read or listen to words in a sentence, grab their meaning, use them and only then the structure or the grammar involved is taught. The LA also shares principles with the communicative approach and the difference is about the increased understanding of the nature of lexis in naturally occurring language, and its potential contribution to language pedagogy. Some principles of the LA are:

- Language consists of grammaticalised lexis, not lexicalised grammar.

- The grammar/vocabulary dichotomy is invalid and much language consists of multi words 'chunks'.

- A central element of language teaching is raising students’s awareness and develop their ability to chunk language successfully.

- Receptive skills, particularly listening, are given enhanced status.

- Collocation is integrated as an organising principle within syllabuses.

- Grammar as a receptive skill, involving the perception of similarity and difference, is prioritised.

- The Present Practise Produce paradigm is rejected, in favour of a paradigm based on the Observe Hypothesise Experiment cycle


Activities include lots of listening and reading, comparisons, repetitions, oral reports, guessing vocabulary meanings based in the context, practice language patterns and collocations and others.

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