The use of lexical approach to develop EFL students´ writing skills in the first grade group "E" of a secondary school

Abstract

The purpose of this pedagogical essay is to focus the learning experiences obtained to develop the first grade students from a secondary school writing skills through lexical chunks. Since the beginning, the students showed enjoyment for the English subject, but also they said English was difficult. After the first evaluation I noticed students had difficulties when writing and speaking due to lack of vocabulary but even if they knew vocabulary they had difficulties still therefore, lexical approach was considered to be worked in the classroom in order for students to be able to express themselves with less difficulty either by writing or speaking with the use of chunks, since chunks, instead of single words as vocabulary, they are conformed by a group of words which are understood as a whole and not by the single meaning from each word. The activities applied were adapted taking into consideration students´ level, interests and the National English Program in Basic Education (NEPBE). In addition, there were modified and applied activities suggested by Lewis (1993) when working with the lexical approach.