1. THE LEXICAL APPROACH
By:
DIANA SYAHFITRI

2. WHAT IS “THE LEXICAL APPROACH”?

3. Made popular in “The Lexical Approach” by Michael
Lewis, this methodology asserts that:
“Language consists not of traditional grammar and
vocabulary but often multi-word prefabricated
chunks”

5. The basic concept on which this
approach rests is the idea that an
important part of learning and
language consist of being able to
understand produce lexical phrases as
chunks.

6. The lexical approach focuses on the learning and teaching of
vocabulary items, which are described as word chunks or word
combination .

7. THE KEY PRINCIPLE OF A LEXICAL APPROACH

8. WHAT IS THE LEXIS?
According to Longman Dictionary of
Contemporary English (1995), Lexis is all
the words in a language.

9. LEXICAL CHUNKS
Also known as lexical phrases, formulaic
language, and frozen or semi-frozen
phrases.

10. LEXICAL CHUNKS
That are not collocation
 By the way
 Up to now
 Upside down
 If I were you
 A long way of
 Out of my mind

12. USING THE LEXICAL APPROACH: WHY AND HOW?
Why use it?
 It cares about the communication
 It teaches the language pattern as they are used by
the native speakers
 It teaches fixed or set phrases
 It awakens the language awareness
 It increase the students’ of lexical chunks

13. How to use it?
 By organizing a lexical syllabus
 But not applying a random exposure of the lexical items
in the classroom
With the activities below:
 Intensive and extensive
 Letting learners record of language patterns by
providing them the opportunity to discover chunks on
their own
 Categorizing word chunks
 Using sentences heads
 Using summarizing words
 Directing students’ attention to the specific chunks in
the text

14. ADVANTAGES OF LEXICAL APPROACH
The teaching process with lexis in the Lexical Approach
brings some advantages with teaching purpose
 Lexical phrases brings fluency in the second
language acquisition
 Because they are context-bound, they can easily be
acquired as chunks
 it is evident that Lexical phrases enjoy different
degrees of variability and flexibility (Porto:1998)

15. LEXICAL APPROACH: EXAMPLE
Read the text:
I get up at 7am. I wash my faceand
thenget dressed. After that I have
breakfast and read the newspaper.
Find word partnerships in the text.

16. CONCLUSION
The Lexical Approach is not really a revolution but an evolution as it tries to
develop principles already known by communicative language teaching.

17. THANKS