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Lexical Approach
Michael Lewis 90’s
developing learner’s proficiency with lexis, or
words and words combinations
Words (e.g., book,
pen)
Pollywords (e.g., by the way, upside
down)
Collocations, or word partnerships (e.g., community service,
absolutely convinced)
Sentece frames and heads (e.g., The fact/suggestion/problem
was…)
- To asist Ss by providing scaffolding.
- To help Ss manage their own learning.
- To provide Ss their main source of input (talk of
the T)
- To analyse real life language samples
based on their own explanations.
- To observe, classify and make
generalizations.- To make good use of
computers.To become the
‘discoverer’.
Advantages:- Ss feel more
encouraged with the learning material- It is helpful and
motivating for Ss to have a step-by-step learning
process.- Ts feel more
comfortable with a clearly defined,
progressive course.
Disadvantages:- Language cannot be divided into different
units in real life.- Some topics
traditionally considered advanced can actually
be taught in much more lower levels.
concentrates on
described by in the
such as
so that Ss are able
while Ts are to
having both
"Language is grammaticalized lexis,
not lexicalized grammar" (Lewis
1993)