2. 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
5. 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”
Idiom
Idioms 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
6. 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?
7. 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
8. 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
9. 1. Language= Grammar+Vocabulary
2. Observe-Hypothesis-Experiment
Circle(Present-practise-produce)
3. Grammaticalized lexis- not lexicalized
grammar
4. Holistic-not atomistic
5. Lexicon is prime
10. Materials
Type 1
Course packages
Type 2
Collection of vocabullary
teaching activities
Type 3
“print out” version of
computer corpora in the
text format
Type 4
Computer corcondance
programs
11. to develop students' vocabulary
able to communicate well
understand the combination of
the words
12. Students able to communicate
Students able to understand of the meaning
Students able to understand of combination
word
Student able to understand of sentence
14. 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.
15. 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/arti
cles/lexical.approach.look
