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[metal56]

Far be it from me to critisise the quality of the discussion, but it seems that it has degenerated from scarcasm about spelling to addressing each other with porcine adjectives.

"Scarcasm's a good word, you should copyright it."

[stephen]

This does all seem to be getting rather personal. That said I have to say that announcing you're a Phd. student in linguistics and producing writing of that standard is asking for abuse. I hope the origional poster's university does not accept that standard of writing from it's phd students. We all make typing errors, but that piece of writing goes beyond belief. If you are doing a phd. in EFL; then, learn to write English properly.

As for recommendations

The Lexical Approach - Michael Lewis. This is published by LTP.

You could try:

Implementing the Lexical Approach (Lewis/pub. LTP), but I personally found it extremely disappointing.

Stephen

PS. Metal 56 thanks for posting the links.

[metal56]

This does all seem to be getting rather personal. That said I have to say that announcing you're a Phd. student in linguistics and producing writing of that standard is asking for abuse. I hope the origional poster's university does not accept that standard of writing from it's phd students. We all make typing errors, but that piece of writing goes beyond belief. If you are doing a phd. in EFL; then, learn to write English properly.

One also has to decide whether to capitalise the p in Phd. or not.

Implementing the Lexical Approach (Lewis/pub. LTP), but I personally found it extremely disappointing.

Isn't "extremely" a bit harsh?

PS. Metal 56 thanks for posting the links.

You're welcome.

[stephen]

Quote:
Implementing the Lexical Approach (Lewis/pub. LTP), but I personally found it extremely disappointing.


Isn't "extremely" a bit harsh?

No, I don't think so. I found the book to be a step backwards: pages and pages on gap-fills. It seems like Lewis was trying to placate those who found that they didn't like what he origionally said rather than actually offer too much in the way of a constructive formula for implementing this approach in new and innovative ways. Indeed, the best bit of the book is in fact not written by Lewis - this being the chapter where teachers talk about how they have introduced the lexical approach into the classroom.

Another bone of contention with Lewis is the fact that he does no more than pay lip service to listening. Nowhere in any of the stuff I have read by him does he seriously propose a model for implementing a lexical approach within a listening context. This is a pity. I personally, have found using a strong lexical approach in beginner/low-level classes where the focus is predominantely on speaking and listening to be extremely benificial to my students progression. Such an approach permits grammar to be dealt with as a receptive and productive skills not a theoretical one. I have found that his OHE model can be applied very well to such situations with good results; it seems judging from Implementing the Lexical Approach, however, that the lexical approach should be approached pretty much solely in text form.

This said I would highly recommend The Lexical Approach which is excellent.

Stephen

[souji]

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