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Date Posted: 13:54:02 07/11/03 Fri
Author: Cássia Scheinbein
Subject: TASK 10

TASK 10 – LEXICAL APPROACH
Explain what a lexical approach is. Describe its main characteristics.
Lexical approach is the approach in which language often consists of multi-word prefabricated chunks and not of traditional grammar and vocabulary. It concentrates on developing learners’ proficiency with lexis, or words and word combinations and bases on the idea that an important part of language acquisition is the ability to comprehend and produce lexical phrases as unanalyzed wholes, or “chunks” and that these chunks become the raw data by which learners perceive patterns of language traditionally thought of as grammar.
Its main characteristics are:
- Language consists of grammaticalised lexis, not lexicalised grammar.
- The grammar/vocabulary dichotomy is invalid; much language consists of multi-words “chunks”.
- A central element of language teaching is raising students’ awareness of, and developing their ability to “chunk” language successfully.
- 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.

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