LAXICAL APPROACH

MUHAZIRPBI UNIT 3 SEMESTER VI

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It is a language teaching method published by michael lewis 1993

Giving importance the insight of the language lexicon

Lexis in the basis of language The lexical approach concentrates on

developing leaners’ proviciency with lexis, or word and word combination

Lexis plays the centra rule Alternative approach to traditional

grammatical approach Chunks, minimal pairs, collocations, lexical

units are the specific characteristics of this approach

BACKGROUND

TYPES OF LEXICAL APPROACH

Lexical approach

Chunks Collocation

Conversational

gambitsIdioms

Similes

Connectives

PRINCIPLE OF LAXICAL APPROACH Chunk

Lexical chunk’s is Group of word that can be found together in language. “Example: At the end of the day”, “that will never happen to me”

Collocation collocations is the way words combine in a language

to produce natural. Example: “pay attention” “house wife”

IdiomIdioms is a sequence of word which has different meaning as a group from the meaning. Example: it’s raining cats and dogs,kick the bucket, spill the beans

Similes: as old as the hills, as still as dead, as hungry as a lion , as easy as A,B,C

Connectives: Finally, to conclude, whereas, meanwhile, consequently

Conversational gambit: is an opening used to star a conversation with someone: gues what! Tell you what, hello, how are you?

Teachers talk is the major source of the leaner input.

To understand and implement the methodology which is based on stages composed of Task, planning, report

To help the leaners manage their own learning after operation

Organizing the technological system, providing scaffoldingto help leaners

TEACHER R0LES

Replace the idea: the teacher is “the knower” the leaners is “the discoverer”

The analyzer of real life language samples based on his or her own explanations

Making use of computer

STUDENT ROLES

1. Language= Grammar+Vocabulary2. Observe-Hypothesis-Experiment

Circle(Present-practise-produce)3. Grammaticalized lexis- not lexicalized

grammar4. Holistic-not atomistic5. Lexicon is prime

PRINCIPLE OF LEXICAL APPROACH

considerations on designing LAMaterials

Type 1Course packages

Type 2Collection of vocabullary

teaching activities

Type 3“print out” version of

computer corpora in the text format

Type 4Computer corcondance

programs

to develop students' vocabularyable to communicate wellunderstand the combination of the words

THE PURPOSE OF LA

Students able to communicate Students able to understand of the

meaning Students able to understand of

combination word Student able to understand of sentence

THE ADVANTAGES OF LA

DISADVANTAGES

Kwolage of grammar is less

Difficult to write a good paragraph

Teacher teach to student about language Refer to only one component of

communicative competen Lack the full characterization of an

approach or methode Still an idea in search of an approach and a

methodelogy The we way language effects the we way

teach it.

CONCLUSION

Lewis, M. (1993). The Lexical Approach. Hove: Language Teaching Publications.

Lewis, M. (1997). Implementing the Lexical Approach. Hove: Language Teaching Publications.

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk.think/articles/lexical.approach.look

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