Lexical Approach
Lexical Approach
Since the publication
of the “Lexical Approach” by Michael Lewis in 1993, Language teaching practices
have been widely reviewed and discussed, so the lexical approach is a method of
teaching foreign languages described by Michael, the basic concept on which
this approach rests is the idea that an important part of learning a language
consists of being able to understand and produce lexical phrases as chunks
"Once the
importance of prefabricated language is acknowledged, the grammar/vocabulary
dichotomy becomes obviously false; In fact, language has long been analyzed as
consisting of grammatical structures and a set of usually single vocabulary
items. Grammar has been given priority over vocabulary"
The lexical approach
is a way of analyzing and teaching language based on the idea that it is made
up of lexical units rather than grammatical structures and the units are words,
chunks formed by collocations, and fixed phrases
The main features of
lexical approach are:
- The basis of language
- Concentrates on developing learners proficiency with lexis, or words combinations
- Giving importance the insight of the language lexicón
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