First, I wild like to tell you what skills students can improve by using this approach. Students can improve speaking, listening, reading and writing. You may wonder why.
We must know that lexical approach focuses more prefabricated items or chunks that represent a significant portion of a native speaker’s spoken and written output. So you should not pay attention to the grammar, the structure or the vocabulary, if so you won’t get confused. I don’t think that translating a chunk word by word is not good idea.
I remember the time when I was in basic. I had trouble understanding some questions. For instance, “How old are you?” ,etc. Definitely, You will have problems to understand If you translate the chunks, You had not better do it. When you find a chunk on a reading, you should believe that grannar and vicavulary are false.
The focus of lexical approach is on the real English. Guessing the meaning of vocabulary items from context is a great way to come up with the meaning of the chunk. Personally apeaking, lexical approach must be applied in higher level (imtermediate…higher)....
Hi Bily
ReplyDeleteAs with any approach, the lexical one has a lot of positive aspects, but there might be some drawbacks as well
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