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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