The lexical approach -Hugh Dellar

04/02/2014 - 12:52

In Five Golden Rules, Hugh looks at the The Lexical Approach, which has been with us for over twenty years now, but the ideas that inform it have been slow to trickle down into our classrooms.

To counter this, I will be suggesting Five Golden Rules that I believe lead to better – and more lexical – teaching:
• Use Lexical Material
• Foster Linguistic Awareness
• Don’t just correct. Expand!
• Explain, exemplify and (get students to) expand upon new language:
• Personalise practice
Concrete examples of how each of these ideas might work in the classroom will be provided – and there will be time for discussion and questions as well!Hugh Dellar is a teacher and teacher trainer at the University of Westminster. He has been teaching since 1993, predominantly in London, but spent three years in Jakarta, Indonesia. He gives teacher training and development talks all over the world. He is the co-author of the Outcomes and Innovations series and the online teacher development course, Teaching Lexically. he is currently working on a methodology book for DELTA also entitled Teaching Lexically as well as a second edition of Outcomes and some ELT apps. He blogs sporadically at http://www.hughdellar.wordpress.com.

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