teaching vocabulary

What does lexis really mean?

• A single or a combination of 2 or more words and chunks to make meaning

• All the words of a language

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  Corpora

• one word

Select the item that is not considered a "component" of lexis

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  Formation of new phrases and sentences

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  Ready made chunks

• Single words and fixed two / three-word combinations

• Collocations

____ refers to generalisable patterns of the language

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  Idioms

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  Collocations

• Grammar

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  Lexical items

The term vocabulary refers ...

• always to very tightly linked two- or three-word combinations

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  not to single words

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  mainly to single words

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  sometimes to very tightly linked two- or three-word combinations

Word lists might not be useful when …

• there is nothing to help the students remember the lexical items

• there are no examples of the words in use, in sentences

• the items on the list seem to have no connection with each other

There are two main types of production tasks regarding newly studied words:

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  Creation – of sentences and texts

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  Elimination – of sentences and texts

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  Completion – of sentences and texts

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  Substitution – of sentences and texts

“When introducing new vocabulary, students need to know its meaning, ______, and pronunciation.”

• form

• length

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  description

“If students are paying attention, they should be able to learn correct pronunciation after hearing one example.”

• true

• false

“Flashcards and miming can be useful for explaining the meaning of new words.”

• true

• false

Mark which of these are examples of word collocation:

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  Open an account

• The combination of words

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  Fall asleep

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  Change the channel