The Lexical Approach

The Lexical Approach is a method of teaching foreign languages developed by M. Lewis in the 1990s

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

This method, just like all the others, has its own particularities

The development of learners' proficiency with lexis, or words and word combinations is a very functional strategy and should be combined with other strategies

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