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In this article, informed by the Lexical Approach, I reflect on grammar instruction in the classroom, including my own teaching, and make suggestions on how it can be 'lexicalised'.

This is the first part of an article looking at the theories of language which form the foundations of the lexical approach to teaching English.

Watch a recording of this webinar with Hania Kryszewska, where she looks at focusing on lexis and the lexical approach.

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A lexical chunk is a group of words that are commonly found together.

I don't think there is ever a class where a student has not queried a new word. Words pop up all of the time and it seems that the more words students notice inside or outside the classroom, the more likely they are to see their own level of English progress.

This article gives an overview of the topic of collocation in English language teaching and shows how this is a key area of study for advanced level students.

In the first of these two articles, Multi-word verbs: Learner problems, I looked at some of the problems that multi-word verbs cause students.

A pedagogic grammar is a description of how to use the grammar of a language to communicate, for people wanting to learn the target language.

In ELT Pelmanism refers to any activity that learners have to complete by memorising objects.