An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of the Lexical Approach to Improving Writing in SLA

The study tries to explore the effectiveness of the lexical approach to improving writing in SLA. In order to find out what effects the lexical approach can have on the writing in SLA, the author conducts a teaching experiment with an experimental class and a control class. A pre-test and a post-test are used as the tools to collect the data. SPSS is used to analyze the data in the experiment. Results of the experiments show that a lexical approach to SLA teaching can enhance students’ awareness of lexical chunks, significantly improve their frequency of using lexical chunks, and conduce to raise their level of English writing.