WORDS AS “LEXICAL UNITS” IN LEARNING/TEACHING VOCABULARY

Authors

  • Moisés Almela
  • Aquilino Sánchez
Keywords: second language teaching/learning, lexical unit, word, corpus linguistics, collocation, lexicology

Abstract

One of the genuine contributions of theoretical linguistics to the interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics is to elucidate the nature of what should be taught and how it should be taught. Traditionally, the input supplied in vocabulary teaching has consisted either of word lists (most often) or of words-in-context (more recently). In the first case, words are treated as self-contained receptacles of meaning, and in the second case, they are considered as nodes of semantic relationships. However, recent directions in corpus-driven lexicology are exploring the gulf between the concept of a “word” and that of a “semantic unit”. The main purpose of this paper is to update some implications of this discussion for one of the applied disciplines, namely FL/L2 vocabulary teaching and learning.

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Author Biography

Moisés Almela

Departamento de Filología Inglesa Campus de La Merced Universidad de Murcia
Published
19-01-2009
How to Cite
Almela, M., & Sánchez, A. (2009). WORDS AS “LEXICAL UNITS” IN LEARNING/TEACHING VOCABULARY. International Journal of English Studies, 7(2), 21–40. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/48961