Focus Framework: A New Guideline for Presenting and Evaluating Lexical Contents in ELT Materials

Despite the not-so-distant negligence of lexicon in language instruction, it is currently taking on a core role in designing ELT materials. Selection of the lexical content is usually informed by a set of pedagogical and non-pedagogical factors like learnability, usefulness, the level of proficiency...

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Published in:The reading matrix 2015-09, Vol.15 (2), p.128
Main Author: Zarifi, Abdolvahed
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Content Analysis
English (Second Language)
English as a second language instruction
English as a second language teaching materials
Foreign Countries
Instructional Materials
Learnability
Malaysia
Qualitative Research
Second Language Instruction
Secondary Education
Textbook Content
Textbooks
Vocabulary
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Summary:Despite the not-so-distant negligence of lexicon in language instruction, it is currently taking on a core role in designing ELT materials. Selection of the lexical content is usually informed by a set of pedagogical and non-pedagogical factors like learnability, usefulness, the level of proficiency targeted, frequency, range, coverage, etc. With the lexical content selected, the next step has to do with adopting appropriate teaching techniques to present it in the most effective way. Despite the well-known pendulum swings of vocabulary learning between explicit and implicit approaches, very little attempt has ever been made as to how lexical content should be dealt with in textbooks. The present study introduces a new three-dimensional framework, namely the "Focus Framework", which is intended to lay down some guidelines both for the presentation and evaluation of the lexical content of the ELT materials.
ISSN:1533-242X
1533-242X