Optimizing a Lexical Approach to Instructed Second Language Acquisition Vrije Universiteit Brussel
It has become widely recognised that second or foreign language learners benefit greatly from mastering a large number of lexical phrases, a.k.a. chunks. The message that sufficient time should be devoted to chunk-learning has been conveyed perhaps most successfully by Michael Lewis, who has called his proposal the Lexical Approach. In that approach, students are helped to notice chunks in texts and to include these as multiword entries in their ...