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Way to teach vocabulary



ACCORDING to Michael Lewis, who revolutionised the teaching and learning of English by introducing the Lexical Approach, vocabulary is the most basic and important aspect in the teaching of English.



Language, according to him, consists of grammaticalised lexis (word), not lexicalised grammar. In other words, vocabulary is the centre of a language and grammar is built around it. And in order to be fluent, learners should have good grasp of vocabulary.



Native speakers’ fluency can be explained by the fact that their vocabulary is stored not only as individual words, but also more importantly as phrases and larger chunks of words. The brain thus processes these chunks of words much more readily and quickly, resulting in fluency.