Over twenty years since the publication of Michael Lewis’s The Lexical Approach[1] and having followed all the debate on it[2], where do we stand in relation to the teaching of vocabulary? A little review of the materials we use in our classrooms and our own attitude to…
Putting your principles into practice: Lexical teaching in the age of eclecticism
24/07/2017
Eclectic or just confused?
As teachers, we’re often told that we’re now living in a post-method world and that we should all aspire to be principled eclectics, picking and choosing activities and techniques as we go about teaching the language. On one level, an awareness…
