期刊名称：LAHOR: journal for Croatian as mother, second and foreign lanugage
印刷版ISSN：1846-2197
电子版ISSN：1848-4972
出版年度：2007
卷号：1.
期号：3.
页码：53-66
出版社：Crotian Philological Society
摘要：The lexical approach to second language teaching has received interest in recent years as an alternative to grammar-based approaches. The lexical ap- proach concentrates on developing learners’ proficiency with lexis, or words and word combinations. It is based on the idea that an important part of language acquisition is the ability to comprehend and produce lexical phrases as unanalyzed wholes, or “chunks”, and that these chunks become the raw data by which learners perceive patterns of language traditionally thought of as grammar. In this article the general principles of the lexical approach are described. In addition to that, the paper explores the possibility of using this approach in teaching Croatian as a foreign language are shown. The analysis reveals advantages and disadvantages in using this approach in teaching CFL to other speakers. As Croatian is a language with different language struc- ture than English, particularly in morphology, only some of the lexical ap- proach principles could be applied successfully, particularly at the beginning of learning. For example, while the English verb to come has only four different forms: come, comes, came, coming, its Croatian equivalent, verb do´ci, together with its aspectual pair dolaziti (which is used in the present tense) has dolazi, dolazimo, dolazite, dolaze (there are more for some less used tenses). On the other hand, the principle of memorising institutional- ized expressions could be easily used in Croatian FL learning to some extent too.
关键词：lexical approach; teaching and learning Croatian
