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Teaching Vocabulary To Advanced Students:A Lexical Approach.
ADVANCED STUDENTS AND THEIR NEEDS
Advanced learners can generally
communicate well, having learnt all the basic structures of
the language.
However, they need to broaden their
vocabulary to express themselves more
clearly and appropiately in a wide
range of situations
The teaching of vocabulary
Above elementary levels was mostly
incidental, limited to presenting new items as they appeared in
reading or sometimes listening texts
Nowdays it is widely accepted that
vocabulary teaching should be part of the
syllabus, and taught in a well-planned and
regular basis.
Aspects of lexis that need
to be taken into account
when teaching vocabulary
(Gairns and redman, 1986)
Boundaries between conceptual meanings.
Homophyny
Homonymy
Polysemy
Style, register, dialect
Affective meaning
Synonymy
Translation
Chunks of language
Grammar of vocabulary
Pronunciation
We must use teaching techniques that can help realise this global concept of what it means to know a lexical
item .
We must also go beyond that, giving learner opportunities to use the items learnt and also helping
them to use effective written storage systems.
MEMORY AND STORAGE SYSTEMS
Understanding how our memory works might help us create more effective ways to teach vocabulary.
Learning new items involve
storing them…
First in our short-term memory.
Afterwards in long-term memory.
Oxford (1990) suggests memory strategies to aid learning, and these can be divided into:
Creating mental linkages
Applying images and
sounds Reviewing well
Employing action
Grouping, associating, placing
new words into a context
Physical response
or sensation,
using mechanic
al technique
s
In a structured
way
Using imagery, semantic mapping,
using keywords
and representing
sounds in memory
DEALING WITH MEANING
The main ways to deal with discovering
meaning
Guided discovery
Contextual guesswork
Using dictionaries
USING LANGUAGES
To turn the receptive
vocabulary items
Into productiv
e ones
Production will depend on motivation, and this is what teachers should aim
at promoting, based on their awareness of students needs and
preferences.
THE LEXICAL APPROACH
LEWIS
‘Language consists not of traditional grammar and
vocabulary, but often of multi-word prefabricated chunks’
Have some common
pronciplesTask -based
learningLexical
approach
Which have been influencing foreign language teaching