UNIT 2 LEXIS

What is Lexis?

During the review of unit 2, I conclude that lexis is one of the most important parts of the second language acquisition. At classroom teaching, teachers need to teach vocabulary in context so our students are practicing constantly and they can use many words as they can. Also, when teachers illustrate the words in many sentences are more helpful to them than lexical explanations but we as an  English teachers have to look for the best way to teach it, where students become masters of the use of various syntactic and semantic uses of words in authentic English sentences or phrases.

In addition, there are many elements that are covering this unit as collocations they are words can be used together  in a language  as in this example lined paper. As well as,  Idioms and fixed expressions can be considered items of special collocation but those restricted collocation which can not normally be understood from the literal meaning of words which make them up such as An arm and a leg, it means that something is very expensive or costly. 

Furthermore, the varieties of English are ways in which words can relate to another language like False friends it means that they are words which have the same or similar form in both languages but with a different meaning  as jubilation – jubilación  in English it means happiness, but in Spanish it means pension or money. 

Finally, I consider that lexis should come before grammar in teaching English, and classroom teachers and  need to focus on the meaningful of lexical elements.  It is needed to focus on phrases and patterns as contents of lexis teaching; on the other hand, this does not mean that teachers should overlook  grammar.  What is truly expected from teachers is to make connections between grammar and lexis, for example, lexical patterns may link grammar and lexis. I will apply this knowledge in my teaching classroom with activities like crossword or puzzles because that is the way to help my students to understand better the meaning instead of just reading and memorizing the definition and also where students use the  new vocabulary is by  playing games, is another fun way to learn easier the language.

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Well, this what I have learned from unit 2.   


Bibliography: 


Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The TKT course. Ernst Klett Sprachen.

The TKT course. Module 1,2,3 

Additional  information

Books:

1. Gairns, R. & Redman, S. (1986). Working with Words: A Guide to Teaching and Learning Vocabulary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2. Redman, S. (2003). English Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

3. Schmitt, N. (2000). Vocabulary in Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press