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Date Posted: 15:17:43 07/09/03 Wed
Author: Maria Cristina Cambraia
Subject: Task 10

The Lexical Approach has been considering an alternative to grammar-based approaches. Apparently it seems contradictory with the communicative approach because it woks with fixed expressions, but I think it is not because they can work together. “It is based on the idea that an important part (it is not the only part) of language acquisition is the ability to comprehend and produce lexical phrases as unanalyzed wholes, or “chunks”.

Michael Lewis emphases the reason for using these items is that fact that we tend to see the language not as words, but as collocations, and to perform them in expressions. Some characteristics are:

• Lexis is the basis of language – The key principle of a lexical approach is that "language consists of grammaticalized lexis, not lexicalized grammar."

• Types of Lexical Units – It is made a distinction between vocabulary and lexis. To learn vocabulary means to learn by heart single words, differently acquire a lexicon to mean learn word combinations producing coherent text.

• The role of formulaic – The existence of lexical units in a language such as English serves the needs of speakers who are predisposed to store and reuse them.

· it is not valid the grammar/vocabulary dichotomy;
· collocations is used as an organism principles;
· successful language instead of accurated language;
· the Present-Practice-produce paradigm is replaced by the Observe-Hypothesis-Experiment;
· language is not based on lexicalized grammar, but on grammaticalised lexis.


REFERENCES:

http://www.ltpwebsite.com/lexicalapproach.htm
http://www.ltpwebsite.com/implementing.htm
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/TESL-EJ/ej09/r10.html
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/0102lexical.html
http://www.nspeak.com/lexical.htm
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/3472/lexapproach.html

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