A revolutionary Way of Teaching Ken Lackman kl + Ken Lackman & Associates

 
It didn‟t
take 
the first time 
work 
happen 
fit 
succeed 
slot-fillers 
Have you taken into
account 
the 
cost 
consideration 
price 
rates 
expense 
slot-fillers 
slot-fillers 

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Lexical Approach Activities 
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Studies have shown that learners tend to notice and remember words in 
chunks, particularly the ones which they consciously or unconsciously 
recognize as variable (semi-fixed expressions) because they can perceive 
that by changing the slot-filler, they can use the expression in many ways 
(it‟s “highly generative”). Imagine a learner sitting at the dinner table and 
he/she hears the following:
“Could you please pass the salt?” 
“Could you please pass the butter?”
“Could you please pass the bread?”
“Could you please pass the ketchup?”
The learner will store the fixed part of the expression, “Could you please 
pass the _____?” because their brain recognizes it as a structure which can 
be varied and applied in different situations to achieve a communicative 
end. Likewise in this popular song, the third line would be the most easily 
acquired by a learner because of its generative value, i.e., it can be used in 
a variety of ways (with different names).
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday 
dear Maria
Happy birthday to you

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Lexical Approach Activities 
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Implications for Teaching 
 
The average educated native speaker knows about 40,000 individual words 
and between 250,000 to 300,000 lexical chunks. If you were to teach 10 
items a lesson, five days a week, it would take about 120 years to teach 
them all! This calculation is based on the recommended number of new 
items that should be introduced in a lesson (10 
– 15) and does not even 
take into take into account