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TEFL Lexis Articles

Valuable insights, strategies and resources to enhance your lexical instruction and support language acquisition in the classroom

Lonely Word Seeks Like-Minded Partners for Possible Collocation
Paul Meehan
How understanding word relationships is the key to successful vocabulary acquisition

Whole Numbers
Alex Case
What students need to know ~ complications in the seemingly simple topic of whole numbers from one to trillions.

Four Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary
Alex Case
This article is not so much about techniques you can use to make sure your students learn words etc as about the overall approach you take in choosing what language to cover in your classes and how to do so.

Japanese Words Borrowed Into English
Stefan Chiarantano
English is a mongrel language!