1. Use of Concordance Lines in English Classroom: Implementation of the Lexical Approach Presenter: Kristina Bayburtsyan (Armenia) European Regional Institute of Information & Communication Technologies

2. Presentation Outline Introduction of the Lexical Approach Introduction of Concordance Lines A Sample Lesson Plan Conclusion

3. The Lexical Approach What is it? Why to implement it? How to implement it?

4. Context vs. Co-text Context - Situational factors Co-text - linguistic environment

5. Context vs. Co-text You don’t look well – shall I get you a … of water?

6. Concordance Lines What are concordance lines How to read concordance lines: ‘Stop. Look left. Look right. Look left again and, when satisfied proceed’

7. A Sample Lesson Plan Topic of the lesson: Introducing new academic vocabulary item – issue. Skills: reading, writing Objectives: 1. to develop Ss’ linguistic competence 2. to raise Ss’ consciousness 3. to increase Ss’ autonomy Organization: individuals, pairs Preparation: handouts, chalk, a board Time: 90 min.

8. Structure of the Lesson Look → Familiarize→ Practice→ Create

9. Look In pre-task activities Ss get acquainted with the notion of chunks and how to identify them in a text (Steps 1-3).

10. Familiarize While performing task activities Ss explore the lexical chunks with the word ‘issue’ and this leads to consciousness-raising (Steps 4- 14).

11. Practice Ss autonomously practice key terms without referring to the concordances. At this stage they experiment with the acquired knowledge and test themselves (Steps 15 & 16).

12. Create Ss create their own piece of writing using the term studied to fulfill a particular function of academic writing (Steps 17 & 18).