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Taking a lexical approach to teaching: principles and problems
Author(s) -
Harwood Nigel
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/1473-4192.00028
Subject(s) - mainstream , vocabulary , grammar , key (lock) , linguistics , core (optical fiber) , computer science , psychology , sociology , mathematics education , political science , philosophy , telecommunications , computer security , law
After briefly reviewing some of the reasons why the traditional grammar/vocabulary distinction is no longer adequate, this article describes two key principles which are claimed to be at the core of teaching according to a lexical approach. There are, however, a number of major difficulties which necessarily co‐occur alongside any attempted classroom implementation. Having discussed how these difficulties may be overcome, the article closes by conceding that there is still much work to be done before the approach can hope to become more fully integrated into the mainstream ELT coursebook.