A DESCRIPTIVE AND CRITICAL EVALUATION OF TEACHING APPROACH AND TECHNIQUES ON TEACHINGLEXICAL PHRASES IN A VIDEO LESSON

Farhad Majeed Hama,Suciana Wijirahayu,Bahra Taib Rashid

doi:10.47841/icorad.v1i1.22

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This paper presents and evaluates all the aspects of a video lesson on teaching lexical phrases. This is a story lesson which is taught by Tony as an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher amongst twenty ESL upper-intermediate learners. The video lesson is taken from the book called “The Practice of English Language Teaching”. The purpose of the lesson is to describe feeling and speaking skills through lexical phrases. Another purpose of the lesson is to show the significance of “Rapport” as an important relationship between the teacher and learners in the lesson sequence. Additionally, this paper aims at assessing the approach, techniques, teaching aids, classroom activities descriptively and critically. The outcome of this paper is to show an excellent model lesson story and its aspects to ESL and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers

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Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is known as a functional approach, and students are the main concern to enrich their overall ability to communicate with the target language (Longhurst 2013)
Schmitt 2000, P. 14 argued that CLT deals with meaning, where students can put on stress on the target language to get a meaningful language with a focus on the "message and fluency rather than grammatical accuracy"
It can be summarized that this assignment has discussed the approach, techniques of teaching, and teaching aids that were employed in Tony's lesson

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Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is known as a functional approach, and students are the main concern to enrich their overall ability to communicate with the target language (Longhurst 2013). Practicing the target language may not have a direct focus on grammar and accuracy, but it increases their understanding and information on language use and communication ability. The lexical approach has been debated concerning language incorporating lexical phrases, which are called fixed or idiomatic expressions This aims at evaluating and analyzing the approach, techniques that are employed by Tony who teaches a group of lexical phrases in an upperintermediate classroom

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