How Grammar is Presented in the Teaching of Grammatical Lexis:

Achieving the Balance of Grammar and Vocabulary for Improving the Reading Skill

 

 

Siusana Kweldju

 

 

The concept of receptive vocabulary is very important in reading theory. Reading involves more than vocabulary as grammatical items also contribute to meaning. Indonesian graduate students who have little knowledge of English often misunderstand the sentences they read although they have looked up the meaning of every unfamiliar word they find in the sentences they read. This paper reports the results of a research in a class of graduate students. The purpose of the preliminary research was to develop a classroom procedure to improve students’ reading skill through enlarging students’ vocabulary size and improving their lexico-grammatical knowledge of sentences. Since the procedure developed is lexically-based, memorization is an important activity and every word is believed to have its own patterns. Students did not only memorise the meanings of individual words, but also their phrasal patterns.

 

 

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Kweldju, S. (2001, April). How grammar is presented in the teaching of grammatical lexis: Acieving the balance of grammar and vocabulary for improving the reading skill. Paper presented at the 36^th RELC International Seminar, Singapore.

 

 

 

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