Topic 11D – Lexical and semantic fields in English. Lexicon need for socialization, information and expression of attitudes. Typology linked to teaching and learning vocabulary in the foreign language classroom activities.

In this topic we will go into detail some aspects of semantics (study of meaning in language). The unit of semantics is the lexeme or lexical item. We will discuss how vocabulary is organized,...

Traditionally, the teaching of a foreign language has focused on the teaching and learning of grammar as well as of vocabulary. The first thing children do in their mother tongue, once they are able to, is to say words. These words will be isolated, they...

In this unit we will study how we can order vocabulary (lexical fields) and how vocabulary is organised (semantic features), then we will see some vocabulary needed to express some common communicative functions (socialization, information and attitude expression...

La morfosintaxis ha sido el componente lingüístico que ha gozado de un ciera preminencia sobre los demás. A la oración "He go to the bank", que contiene suficiente información léxica, le falta la morfosintáctica correspondiente, porque no sabemos si el que...