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    Lexical Chunks Brainstorm

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    This document discusses lexical chunks, which are groups of words that commonly occur together in native speech such as collocations, idioms, and phrasal verbs. It notes that the lexical approach views language as consisting of word units rather than grammatical structures. Some ways to help students learn and remember lexical chunks are to have them notice chunks in texts and use activities to complete chunks. Teachers can assess chunk usage and commonness through corpus analysis.

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    This document discusses lexical chunks, which are groups of words that commonly occur together in native speech such as collocations, idioms, and phrasal verbs. It notes that the lexical approach views language as consisting of word units rather than grammatical structures. Some ways to help students learn and remember lexical chunks are to have them notice chunks in texts and use activities to complete chunks. Teachers can assess chunk usage and commonness through corpus analysis.

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    This document discusses lexical chunks, which are groups of words that commonly occur together in native speech such as collocations, idioms, and phrasal verbs. It notes that the lexical approach views language as consisting of word units rather than grammatical structures. Some ways to help students learn and remember lexical chunks are to have them notice chunks in texts and use activities to complete chunks. Teachers can assess chunk usage and commonness through corpus analysis.

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    Lexical Chunks Brainstorm

    Types of lexical chunks: Groups of words that generally come together/ are generally
    preferred by native speakers: Collocations- Idioms- Phrasal verbs Common expressions
    The lexical approach: Language viewed as units of words rather than grammatical structures.
    Problems:
    How can we assist students to remember lexical chunks? Possible steps- noticing chunks-
    making chunks memorable speak, listen, read and write chunks- review chunks.
    Teaching methods:
    Getting students to identify chunks from a set text and then using these lexical chunks to
    complete activities.
    Tools
    Corpus
    Notes:
    Especially beneficial for teaching higher level international exams (Cambridge suite).
    Reading:
    Lindstorm, L. and Boers, F. (2008) Teaching Chunks of Language: From noticing to
    remembering. Helbling Languages.
    Kinds of chunks (p.8)
    Chunks can be classified by
    Function, e.g. conversational fillers such as you know what I mean; exclamations, Good
    god!; pragmatic notices, Excuse me; discourse organisers, Having said that; and
    situation evaluators, Small world.
    Form, e.g. Sentence heads such as Could you ?; phrasal verbs, break down;
    compounds: credit card, weather forecast; strong collocations, tell a story; and
    grammatical frames, asas.
    They can range from chunks where meaning is immediately clear (come in) to those whose
    meaning seems impossible to guess (hit it off with someone).
    They can be but into geographical categories (international English, used in the south eact
    of England , age categories of typical users and levels of formality.
    Figurative idioms and proverbs.
    Common expressions in everyday language (never mind); ones that are not (be that as it
    may); ones typical of specific domains of life (hold someone in custody)or of a particular
    genre (conduct an experiment).
    Chunks can go out of fashion (raining cats and dogs).
    New terms such as broadband can be come to be seen as chunks
    Frequency and commonness
    * Choosing chunks can show some divergence between native speakers
    Notes on text
    Different types of language chunks can also have lots of classifications (topic or theme
    based/ using a certain verb with different combinations.
    How can we measure commonness and frequency of lexical chunks?

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