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A teacher of class V presented to her learners vocabulary not as individual words, but as unanalyzed chunks like 'as far as possible' 'whenever possible' and so on. What does the method or approach known as?

A teacher of class V presented to her learners vocabulary not as individual words, but as unanalyzed chunks like 'as far as possible' 'whenever possible' and so on. What does the method or approach known as? Correct Answer Lexical approach

Language teaching refers to a process whereby a child gains communicative comprehension or fluency over a language. It involves practice by learners where facilitation is provided by a teacher. There are several methods of English language teaching and the Lexical Approach is one of them.

Key Points 

Lexical Approach: The lexical approach, proposed by Michael Lewis (1993), has emerged as an alternative to grammar-based approaches to second language teaching. It focuses on developing learners’ proficiency.

  • This approach focuses on developing learners’ proficiency with lexis, or word and word combinations. Lexis includes not only single words but also the word combinations that people store in their mental lexicons.
  • This approach believes that ‘language consists not of traditional grammar and vocabulary but often of multi-word prefabricated chunks’ as this approach is a widespread occurrence of multi-word units or lexical chunks in native speakers’ languages.
  • Lexical phrases in any language offer more communicative and expressive power than grammatical structures. This approach gives special attention to collocations which helps the individuals to communicate effectively in a particular context.

Hence, it is clear that the above-mentioned method is known as the Lexical approach.

Additional Information 

  • A communicative approach is a method of language teaching which makes learners confident to communicate effectively by involving them in real communication. It highlights the importance of real communication.
  • Word chunks refer to the smaller units of words. Several smaller units are combined to form large chunks. For creating chunks, it is important to discover some organizational principles, which can link smaller units.

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