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Date Posted: 14:21:52 07/09/03 Wed
Author: Patricia Galvao Rodrigues
Subject: Task 10


The lexical Approach concentrates on developing learner’s proficiency with lexis, or words and word combinations.
Michael Lewis shows the suggests of lexical approach:
1) Lexis is the basis of language;
2) Lexis is misunderstood in language teaching because of the assumption that grammar is the basis of language and that mastery of the grammatical system is a prerequisite for effective communication.
3) The key principle of a lexical approach is that “language consists of grammaticalized lexis, not lexicalized grammar.”
4) One of the central organizing principles of any meaning centered syllabus should be lexis.

In the lexical approach in case of teaching and learning exists activities used to develop learner’s knowledge of lexical chains include the following.

1) Intensive and extensive listening and reading in the target language;
2) First and seconde language comparasions and translation;
3) Repetition and recycling of activities, such as summarizing a text orally one day and again a few days later to keep words and expressions that have been learned active;
4) Guessing the meaning of vocabulary;
5) Noticing and recording language patters and collocations;
6) Working with dicitionaries;
7) Workin with language corpuses created by the teacher for use in the classroom or accessible on the Internet.


Ref: Lexical Approach to Seconf Language teaching;
Principles and implications of lexical approach.

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