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Date Posted: 12:12:21 07/11/03 Fri
Author: Jose Vilefort
Subject: TASK 10

Lexical approach

“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 only be concerned of the target language in the classroom, but will be more concerned to keep learners' attention upon these chunks. These chunks appear to satisfy the individual’s communicative needs at a given moment and can be classified, acoording to Lewis (1997b), as: isolated words; polywords; collocations or word partnerships; institutionalized utterances; sentence frames and heads and even text frames.

The main principles of the Lexical Approach are:
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.
Teaching lexis on language should be based on language production, using the appropriate units for each particular situation. Activities for teaching and learning by lexical approach should include the following topics:
# intensive and extensive listening and reading in the target language;
# first and second language comparisons and translations – chunk for chank, rather than word for word;
# repetition and recycling of activities;
#guessing the meaning of vocabulary items from context
# noticing and recording language patterns and collocations
# working with dictionaries and other reference tools.
# working with language corpuses created by the teacher for use in the classroom or accessible on the internet.

REFERENCES:
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej09/r10.html
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/0102lexical.htmll

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