The document discusses the lexical approach to language teaching published by Michael Lewis in 1993. The lexical approach focuses on developing learner proficiency with vocabulary, words, and word combinations. It emphasizes that vocabulary, not grammar, is the central component of a language. The approach uses lexical chunks, collocations, idioms, similes, and connectives to teach vocabulary. The goal is for learners to effectively communicate through understanding how words combine in natural language.

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

4. Lexical
approach
Chunks Collocation
Conversat
ional
gambits
Idioms
Similes
Connectives

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

13. Kwolage of
grammar is less
Difficult to write a
good paragraph

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

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