Lexical Syllabus

Lexical Syllabus

1. Emergence of lexical syllabus was a reaction against traditional structural syllabus

2. the students must be able to understand and use lexical phrases such as chunks, prefabricated patterns, and collocations

3. Criteria for the selection of lexical items

   • Frequency
   • Teachability:
   • Authenticity
   • Coverage
   • Similarity

4. Merits

   • Sinclair and Renouf (1988)
     • Practiality
       • employ the most common words of the language
     • Efficiency
       • offers to the learner things worth learning
     • Authenticity
       • ll of the teaching materials are selected from authentic language use
     • Flexibility in implementation
       • is an independent syllabus
       • lexical syllabus could adopt any other teaching practice
     • Frequency
       • lists the most frequent expressions in the language.

5. Drawbacks

   • The use of the inflected forms of the base-forms of words in word lists
   • function words are not useful to negotiate the intended message.
   • aspects concerned with grammar are not an easy question
   • it is impossible that every item needs to be formally taught in language classroom.