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Boers, Frank; Lindstromberg, Seth – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2005
The Lexical Approach (LA) is founded on the belief that, in order to achieve a high level of accuracy "with fluency," learners of a foreign language need to commit to memory vast numbers of multi-word expressions. However, since it is far from clear that the methodology currently associated with the LA holds out well-founded hope that phrase…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mnemonics