Lexical approach

The lexical approach refers to various methods of teaching foreign languages with focus on lexical units of various sizes. On the smaller end, the lexical approach refers to teaching practices where vocabulary learning sets the preliminary ground for further language learning. Paul Nation, Laufer and others have been influential in this field, with various techniques to quickly expand the student's vocabulary mostly via vocabulary list learning. On the longer end, it requires to understand and produce lexical phrases as chunks, as described by Michael Lewis in the early 1990s. Students are there taught to identify frequent language patterns (grammar), as well as to have sets of words at their disposal.

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