(1708) LEXICAL APPROACH AS A COMBINATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGY

摘要

The article looks at the Lexical approach as a practical methodology of teaching languages that tracesthe developments in linguistics.Modern trends of linguistic research are characterized by the pragmatic tendency, since the main taskof scientific research is to describe the language functioning in the real context. Furthermore, one ofthe main directions of research in the field of applied linguistics is corpus linguistics which deals withbuilding electronic databases of language corpora.Electronic corpora provide a rich linguistic material for educational and research purposes. A numberof classic electronic foreign language databases have been developed; the most famous of them arethe British and the American National Corpora of English, the Longman Corpus, Bank of English. Themost available and widely used by teachers of English are British National Corpus Sampler, TheLongman Corpus.The paper studies the core elements of the methodology such as word combinations, phrases andexpressions (lexical chunks) in the communication context. According to Lexical approachmethodology the ability to speak fluently depends on storing in mind large amounts of words andphrases. A sufficiently large mental lexicon affects the “naturalness” of speech and teaches studentsto think in a foreign language, removing the phase of translation from mother tongue to a foreignlanguage, and also allows learners to understand the laws of grammar (language patterns).The article assigns a special reference to phrases, expressions and templates that serve to developthe ability to "recognize the pattern" in books, songs, movies. It studies how it is possible to master thelearners' ability to modify already known patterns, complementing them with new words. For example:meet somebody + at the weekend/ in the evening / next week/everyday; for advanced learners to usecollocations for speaking: take / retake / pass / fail / scrape through an exam.The Lexical approach to language teaching is closely connected with Dictogloss technique. Thistechnique is aimed to focus learners on remembering useful phrases, expressions, key patterns of ateacher speech, from movies, video and communication with native speakers.The growing awareness of the rich contextual relationships in spoken and written discourse meansthat collocation and word grammar need to become established categories for both teaching andlearning languages.