Language Awareness with a Focus on Lexical Variation
Abstract
With the continuous development of English language teaching (ELT), language awareness has been studied as a teaching approach. Vocabulary knowledge is indispensable in all language skills, such as reading and speaking, listening, and writing. It is one of the constituent elements of language. This article is based on literature review and provides a lexical variation view on language awareness, and attempts to discuss the variability and flexibility with a focus on lexis, which reflects lexical awareness on language teaching from the perspective of English teachers. The study shows that Data-driven learning (DDL) approach has helped EFL learners to build lexical awareness to some degree. Furthermore, three reflections in teachers’ teaching are as follow: setting themes for peculiar words in each lesson will help students to easily understand the words; adjust teachers’ own language expression according to the actual response of students constantly; teach the language through the culture.References
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