An Effective Way to Memorize New Words

PDF #70 – Xiufang Xia – An Effective Way to Memorize New Words – Lexical Chunk, November 2018, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China

Vocabulary is the basis of language, but memorizing new words has always been a hard job for all English learners. This paper was written based on the theories on lexical chunk by Lewis and other scholars, and the experiment conducted on my own teaching class. The paper explored the function of lexical chunks, types of lexical chunk, high frequency lexical chunks, the differences between lexical chunks in English and Chinese, and how to implement the method of lexical chunk teaching.