[方法探讨] 第二语言关于词快和意群的学习-----The Lexical Approach

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   第二语言关于词快和意群的学习-----The Lexical Approach
外教讲述：
I just wanted to mention some less abstract ideas about learning.

Today, I'll briefly introduce one of our techniques, the Lexical Approach.

"It is our ability to use lexical phrases that helps us to speak with fluency. This prefabricated speech has both the advantages of more efficient retrieval and of permitting speakers (and learners) to direct their attention to the larger structure of the discourse, rather than keeping it narrowly focused on individual words as they are produced" (Nattinger and DeCarrico 1992).

The basic principle of the lexical approach, then, is: "Language is grammaticalised lexis, not lexicalised grammar" (Lewis 1993).

Michael Lewis recognized that one of the weaknesses of the natural methods and the more old fashioned grammar based approaches was not enough emphasis on the importance of vocabulary to achieve fluency.
But he didn't think of vocabulary in the traditional sense, and certainly not in the way it is taught in Chinese schools. (e.g. long lists of words grouped by theme, such as 'clothes' or 'things in the classroom'.)
Native speakers have a huge repetoire of chunks, stock phrases, collocations, etc. that free up "working memory" and allow for more meaningful and fluent use of language. (See above)
Lexis has 4 categories:
1) Vocabulary, individual words.
2) Collocations (words that are commonly found together, such as quick shower)
3) fixed and idiomatic expressions (make a promise, give a smile)
4) Formulaic sentences and sentence patterns (e.g. "The trouble with _____ is _____")

Miss Amy:
教学中就着重于词汇链和意群的学习在二语学习中的重要性。就比如说这个和cold相关的词汇，catch a cold. Have a cold。
在传统教学中，学生记忆一大堆词汇，比如说学习衣服这个系列的时候，就学一大堆相关的衣服词汇，这种学习方式并不能帮助孩子对词汇量，意群的掌握。
对于本土人，他们已经有大量的词快.固定词组，表达。比如说 很常用的，粉红猪小妹里面，Peppa and George are having a lot of fun(doing)..... guess what we've been doing? let me think.... that's not funny....run along, if you.....,you must....