"A lexical approach in language teaching refers to one derived from the belief that the building blocks of language learning and communication are not grammar, functions, notions or some other unit of planning and teaching but lexis, that is, words and word combinations. Lexical approaches in language teaching reflect a belief in the centrality of the lexicon to language structure, second language learning and language use, and in particular to multiword lexical units or 'chunks' that are learned and used as single items." (RICHARDS, J.C., e RODGERS, T. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986, p.132.)

In language teaching, the view of the nature of language is central to the development of a specific approach. As far as the lexical approach is concerned, it is correct to say that…