ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#8 | February 20, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036
The BBC TeachingEnglish team is hosting a webinar on “Spoken grammar/lexical approach” with Hanna Kryszewska on March 15, 12.00 UK time.
Rob Lewis says, “Lexical Chunking is a way of thinking about language which puts lexis in the centre of our attention rather than grammar. New ways of collecting data such as computer analysis of the language corpus has provided invaluable information about the meaning of words, their frequencies and their word partnerships just to name a few. The pedagogical implications for our teaching are immense and it is now finding its way into our coursebooks and other materials we use in our language classes. Raising awareness of chunks through learner training speeds up the learning process helps in more natural language use and can helps students to perform better in exams. In this session we will look at chunks, how to teach them, how to tweak our materials and how to explore the available on-line resources”.
Speaker of the webinar: Hanna Kryszewska, senior lecturer at the English Institute, University of Gdańsk, Poland, and EU Teacher Training College.
Click here to register for the ‘Spoken grammar/lexical approach’ Webinar.
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