Ken Lackman on the Lexical Approach

2023-04-17

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community. Ken has been in ELT since 1995. A teacher, trainer, and author, he has written or co-written over 20 books, including the recently published Connections 3 coursebooks with Pearson. In this episode, he dives into the lexical approach, why it never caught on and how teachers can use it in their teaching. Specifically, we dive into: how ELT has evolved why Michael Lewis was "pissed" Dogme ELT & its place how teachers can decide which vo...

Click here to grow with other teacherpreneurs in our free support community.

Ken has been in ELT since 1995. A teacher, trainer, and author, he has written or co-written over 20 books, including the recently published Connections 3 coursebooks with Pearson.

In this episode, he dives into the lexical approach, why it never caught on and how teachers can use it in their teaching.

Specifically, we dive into:

how ELT has evolved
why Michael Lewis was "pissed"
Dogme ELT & its place
how teachers can decide which vocabulary to focus on in Dogme /TBLT
his CAT framework for Dogme
the post/no methodology era
students making "great mistakes"
the Lexical Approach
the future of ELT and AI

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