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Vocabulary Scrivener

The document discusses the importance of lexis, or vocabulary, in language learning and teaching. It defines lexis as including single words, common word combinations (collocations), and longer phrases used like single words. Lexis is important to learn systematically and involves dealing with multi-word items, not just single words. Lexis is highly related to reading, listening, and language skills. Teachers should pre-teach lexis, give attention to lexis during and after activities, and use various practices and games to help students learn and recall new lexical items.

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Vocabulary Scrivener

The document discusses the importance of lexis, or vocabulary, in language learning and teaching. It defines lexis as including single words, common word combinations (collocations), and longer phrases used like single words. Lexis is important to learn systematically and involves dealing with multi-word items, not just single words. Lexis is highly related to reading, listening, and language skills. Teachers should pre-teach lexis, give attention to lexis during and after activities, and use various practices and games to help students learn and recall new lexical items.

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  • Vocabulary Scrivener: Explains the definitions and usage of lexis, vocabulary, and lexicology, including examples of word combinations and meanings.
  • Teaching Lexis: Covers methods and activities for teaching lexis, focusing on practical application and skill development.

Vocabulary Scrivener

Lexis: is a more complete concept.


Vocabulary; refers to single words a n sometimes linked two or three word
combination.
Lexis: Refers to the internal database of words and the combinations that we
can recall.
This includes:

traditional single word

Common going together patterns of words (blonde hair,


traffic jam) known as collocations.
longer combinations of words (used as if they were a
single one) e.g: Id rather not to say, someone you can talk
to
Grammar: patterns of language and the ability to construct new combinations.
2.- Lexis in classroom
Beginners manage to communicate without the use of correct grammar, only
using key words.
Encourage students with use of English-English dictionaries, intead of the
English-Spanish(mother tong)*
The role of lexis in classroom
Lexis is important and needs a systematic and constant work to help the
students to learn, use and recall new words.
the use of dictionaries provides a useful tool for self study.
make a difference between the lexis for productive and receptive
recognition.
Deal with multiword items and not only single words.
3.- Lexis and skills works
Lexis is highly related with the reading and listening tasks. Because the
students meet the language in natural context.

Pre-teaching lexis
The use of activities designed to approach and practice some lexis before the
principal activities to do (read words related to a text or a listening.)
Dealing with lexis during and after a activity.
Give short answers and only to the ones who ask, this will encourage them to
search by themselves a meaning.
In listening try to keep the attention on the recording making questions
about small parts of it. Some details.

4.- Presenting lexis


Offer a short teacher led focus on the meaning to clarify a single item.
(maybe using a list)
words related to a specific place or words that have a similar use or the ones
that you can use to define a specific task.
5.- Lexical practice activities and games
To help the students to become more familiar with an specific lexical item is
necessary to keep them working with it with different activities as:
discussions, written tasks, matching pictures and words, memory
games, fill in gaps etc.
6.- Remembering lexical items
Encourage students to keel a useful lexical item list, not only to translate the
words that they are reading or listening.
This is necessary to approach them with the use of collocations.

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