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 Sun May 11, 2008 0:31 am How can we apply lexical bundles in esl teaching? |
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It is mostly a matter of making the students aware of the abundance of lexical bundles-- word groups-- in the language, and that it is to their advantage to consider such groupings as a unit. In my classes, the topic arises when I am pointing out natural pronunciation rhythms. When a student stumbles across such a word group, I just take a moment to help them with the flow, and give them a brief opportunity to throw it into various contexts--
Do you want a sandwich
Do you wanna lesson
Do you wanna pizza...
...Do you want to dance
Do you wanna finish early--
before moving on with whatever we were doing in the class.
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| Sun May 11, 2008 9:01 am How can we apply lexical bundles in esl teaching? |
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| amandacool wrote: | I don't know what
I don't why
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Do you wnat to
Do you want a
The above are some of the exampls of lexical bundles, and what can we apply these new concept in esl teaching?
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Instead of teaching/learning only single words, you can also teach/learn bundles as part of "vocabulary" development.
These are very common, for example, but I don't know many students who could produce them so easily - especially students who have been taught only through word-by-word sentence building and vocabulary learning methods:
all of a sudden
all at once
all over the place
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