Key issues in teaching lexis

Kuznetsova Tatiana Nikolayevna

The article looks into the importance of lexis in the setting of English language teaching. Topics analyzed include the scope of vocabulary learning, aspects of knowing a lexical item, strategies of learning/teaching lexis. The article also considers issues of vocabulary testing and evaluation.

Keywords:concept of four strands, word families, lexical item, meaning focused input, meaning focused output, high frequency words, low frequency words, massed repetition, spaced repetition.