Teaching Vocabulary to advanced students:A lexical approach.

The teaching of vocabulary

Aspects of lexis

Boundaries between conceptual meaning

Homonymy

Homophyny

Synonymy

Pronunciation

Vocabulary teaching should be:

Part of the syllabus

Taught in a well planning

Translation

Knowing not only lexis refers but also meaning Taught in a regular basis

Awareness of certain differences and similarities between the native and foreign language.

understanding words that have the same pronunciation but different spellings and meanings

distinguishing between the various meaning of a single word form which has several meanings which are NOT closely related

distinguishing between the different shades of meaning that synonymous words have

Ability to recognise and reproduce items in specch

Memory and storage systems. Oxford suggests: memory strategies

creating mental linkages:

grouping, associating, placing new words into a context;

using imagery, semantic mapping, using keywords and representing sounds in memory

applying images and sounds

reviewing well in a structured way

Learning styles preferences:

physical response or sensation, using mechanical techniques employing

action

visual, aural, kinesthetic, tactile

short-term memory

Long-term memory

Until seven chunks.

Any amount of information.

Using language.

Guided discovery involve asking questions or offering examples that guide students to guess meanings correctly.

Strategies:

word formation

contextual guesswork

identifying the function of the word in the sentence

check pronunciation

the grammar of the word

different spelling

Dealing with meaning.

we need to refine their understanding of the item, exploring boundaries between conceptual meaning, polysemy, synonymy, style, register, possible collocations, etc. According the strudent`s

motivation and needs.

The lexical approach.

According to Lewis

that most learners with ‘good vocabularies’ have problems with fluency because their ‘collocational competence’ is very limited

Hill explains:

language should be recorded together which characteristically occurs together’, which means not in a linear

the Lexical Approach and Task-Based Learning have some common principles, which have been influencing foreign language teaching

Rationale of the lesson.

Choice of material Collocation and deling with meaning

Group work Choice of task

we wanted to use authentic material to expose our students to rich, contextualized, naturally-occurring language.

students aware of the collocations we will be focusing on, and hopefully this will enable students to find other collocations

real life task that we expect will interest students

Working in groups help fostering learning independence, and specially in vocabulary work, learners can exchange knowledge, asking others to explain unknown items