Lexical Approach – what is it?
I have to read ‘Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching’ by Richards and Rodgers. This book represents numerous methodologies that have been used in the past Twentieth century ranging from Grammar Translation Method to Communicative Language Learning. Some Methods mentioned in the book are quite interesting and some are absurd!
The Lexical Approach
What exactly is the Lexical Approach? Well, after reading one chapter of the book mentioned I am still not a hundred percent what exactly it is!
But this is what I can understand about The Lexical Approach: it does not use the standard Present-Practice-Production [PPP] model that most teachers use on the CELTA and Trinity Cert.TESOL courses. This methodology is replaced by Observe-Hypothesis-Experiment approach. Using this methodology increases role for word grammar [collocations and cognates]; decreases role for sentence grammar until intermediate level; and the usage of text grammar [supra-sentential features]. And that’s it! I need to do more research on The Lexical Approach!
