Publication Date
2001
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)
First Advisor
Claire Stanley
Abstract
This paper examines ways to enhance learners’ ability to communicate in their new language. It begins by questioning the traditionally accepted view of language teaching which views language as “lexicalized grammar”. It also argues that teaching vocabulary has focused mostly on techniques of explaining words and storing them, while the importance of strategies to activate the learners’ storage by retrieving lexical items from memory had clearly been underestimated. The paper analyzes the strategies for integrating a lexical item into the learners’ linguistic resources for immediate access and suggests a variety of exercises and activities that promote active use of vocabulary in class, as well as outside the classroom. In conclusion, it suggests a number of implications for language teachers and modifications to classroom procedures.
Disciplines
Curriculum and Instruction | First and Second Language Acquisition
Recommended Citation
Marciulionyte, Lina, "Promoting Active Use of Lexical Items" (2001). MA TESOL Collection. 449.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/ipp_collection/449