Lexical Approach.

Lexical Approach.

How to Use the Lexical Approach in Your Classroom

1. Immerse students in authentic materials

2. Highlight lexical chunks every chance you get

3. Translate chunks from the target language to English (and vice versa)

4. Incorporate earlier chunks in later lessons

5. Invest in listening and reading activities

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Advantages of the Lexical Approach The lexical approach speeds up language acquisition “Chunking” is actually a memory improvement technique. By grouping commonly co-occurring words and treating them as one larger whole allows the brain to process greater amounts of information. Chunking allows your class to cover plenty of information quickly. Instead of your students individually processing every word in a sentence, what every word means and how each one grammatically relates to the word next to it, they’re dealing with chunks. Instead of building fluency one word at a time, you’re doing it one phrase at a time. For example, instead of teaching “Hang in there!” as three meaningful words, you teach it as a canned expression which means “don’t give up.” It’s eminently practical “The green monkey jumped on the round table.” When you were a student yourself, did you ever encounter sentence examples that made you think, “Yeah, I’ll never use that one in my everyday speech… ever.” While it might have taught you the grammar concept, it didn’t teach you actual useful phrases you could use in everyday conversations. With the lexical approach, your students get phrases and expressions that are good to go—pre-made expressions that native speakers readily understand and that can be used in daily conversations.

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