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Date Posted: 05:57:29 07/11/03 Fri
Author: Daniele Lages
Subject: Task 10

Explain what a lexical approach is. Describe its main characteristics.

According to Michael Lewis The Lexical Approach, is an alternative to the grammar-based approaches, he points out that the basis of the communicative process is the lexis. Lewis presents its principals with the intent to make teachers think about the learning/teaching process in a different way. The Lexical Approach focuses on developing learners proficiency with lexis, or words and word combinations. This approach portrays the importance of the ability to comprehend and produce lexical phrases as unanalyzed wholes, or chunks, focusing on fixed expressions that occur frequently in spoken language. “The key principle of lexical approach is that language consists of grammaticalized lexis, not lexicalized grammar”.
The main characteristics of this approach are the following topics.
1. The grammar/vocabulary dichotomy is invalid.
2. Collocation is used as an organizing principle.
3. Successful language is a wider concept than accurate language.
4. The Observe-Hypothesise-Experiment cycle replaces the Present-Practise-Produce Paradigm.
5. Most importantly, language consists of grammaticalised lexis--not lexicalised grammar

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