Using the Lexical Approach in Your Classroom
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Reflective Questions:
1. Are you already using any elements of the lexical approach in your classroom?
2. If so, how can you expand on them?
3. How do you feel about teaching grammar directly? Do you think there’s still a place for it?Please check out the links below for some free and paid lexical approach resources and ideas.
Delta Publications
Hugh Dellar & Andrew Walkley ‘Teaching Lexically’
Teaching-lexically-3 – contains a bank of classroom activities.
You can also go to their Lexical Lab website for more teaching ideas https://www.lexicallab.com/about-us/
H.Kryszeska & P. Davis ‘The company words keep’ https://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/book/the-company-words-keep-9783125013575/?page_id=1 – a great book with over a hundred ready activities to be used in the classroom.
Free resources/useful websites
Norbert Schmitt’s website: https://www.norbertschmitt.co.uk/ vocabulary-resources An applied linguist’s website, which houses – among other things – the PHRASE list of the 505 most frequent ‘non-transparent’ multi-word expressions in English.
Ken Lackman’s website where you can download a free book with activities, including tasks based on the lexical Approach http://kenlackman.com/files/LexicalActivitiesBook102.pdf
You can also follow Ken Lackman on twitter and facebook for more ideas https://twitter.com/kenlackman?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/Ken-Lackman-Associates-693929194000761/
You can also create your own lexical chunks materials using the helpful websites below:
Word Neighbors: http://wordneighbors.ust.hk/ A corpus-based site that allows you to search for the most common collocations of a word.
SKELL: https://skell.sketchengine.co.uk/run.cgi/skell An open- access version of ‘Sketch Engine’, which easily allows you to check how words and phrases are used by real speakers of English.
HASK: http://pelcra.pl/hask_en/ Another collocation site, providing attractive graphic representations of different word combinations.
I want to learn more about using lexical approach im my classroom.
Thank you for your interest in the use of the Lexical Approach. We posted some links above that are worth having a look at. We can also recommend books written by Michael Lewis, The Lexical Approach and Implementing the Lexical Approach. Also, please keep an eye on our upcoming events, since Hugh Deller is going to start a series on the topic in June. You will definitely find various ways of using the lexical approach with your students based on the links provided on the forum, the books listed above and the upcoming webinars.
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