Welcome to Lexical Lab
We were at a conference in Poland last year and a teacher we got talking to mentioned how excited he’d once been about the Lexical Approach and how discussing the ideas behind it had energised his teaching. He then shrugged wistfully and asked “Whatever happened to it, I wonder? It just seems to have vanished.”
That conversation provided the seed for this website. While mainstream publishing has generally resisted attempts to put out lexically oriented materials, the ideas that Michael Lewis and Jimmie Hill condensed and popularized remain among the most influential to...