Lexical Approach

Lexical Approach in English

The lexical approach is a way of analysing and teaching language based on the idea that it is made up of lexical units rather than grammatical structures. The units are words, chunks formed by collocations, and fixed phrases.
Example:
The phrase 'Rescue attempts are being hampered by bad weather' is a chunk of language, and almost a fixed phrase. It is formed by the collocations 'Rescue' + 'attempt', 'rescue attempt' + 'hampered', 'hampered' + 'by', 'hampered by' + 'bad weather'.

source: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/lexical-approach

Example:

surveyed the literature on

• I surveyed the literature on the political system during japan's Meiji era.

in recent years

• Japan in recent years become a leader in Electronic and Chemical industry.

draws primarily on

• The present study draws primarily on Sarah's work on mediation (e.g. Sarah & Odin, 2010)

Academic Word List (AWL) family

Academic Word List from abstract paper

An Efficient User Verification System Using Angle-Based Mouse Movement Biometrics

Biometric authentication verifies a user based on its inherent, unique characteristics - who you are. In addition to physiological biometrics, behavioral biometrics has proven very useful in authenticating a user. Mouse dynamics, with their unique patterns of mouse movements, is one such behavioral biometric. In this article, we present a user verification system using mouse dynamics, which is transparent to users and can be naturally applied for continuous reauthentication. The key feature of our system lies in using much more fine-grained (point-by-point) angle-based metrics of mouse movements for user verification. These new metrics are relatively unique from person to person and independent of a computing platform. Moreover, we utilize support vector machines (SVMs) for quick and accurate classification. Our technique is robust across different operating platforms, and no specialized hardware is required. The efficacy of our approach is validated through a series of experiments, which are based on three sets of user mouse movement data collected in controllable environments and in the field. Our experimental results show that the proposed system can verify a user in an accurate and timely manner, with minor induced system overhead.

Source: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2046725

using http://www.lextutor.ca to extract and find the AWL

A review of 3 story books: Ice Age, Mr Bean and Shrek

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Day #3b - Structuring an argument

Book: English Collocation in use, Michael McCarthy et al, Cambridge Univ Press

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Subject: Academic Writing 2: Structuring an argument (page 70-71)

Exercises:

Day #3a - Book Review: Ice Age

Ice Age, published by Scholastic

source: http://www.eltbooks.com/cover/9781906861391.jpg

I would like to make a review of this book - Ice Age, I believe many of you already watched the Ice Age animation movie from cinema, television, Blue-ray or DVD. So far, There are  5 series of Ice Age movies starting from Ice Age in 2002, Ice Age: The Meltdown in 2006, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 2009, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012, and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016. This book is related to the first series which very interesting, fun and easy to understand for English learner even from very beginner level since the authors using story telling method and with comic-like structure. For your information, this book is part of Popcorn ELT Readers series published by Scholastic in which designed for early stages. You will see 3 level starting from level 1 for early beginner consist of 200 headwords, level 2 for mid beginner consist of 250 headwords, and level 3 for high beginner consist of 300 headwords. This book itself has 531 story word count, easy peasy isn't it?

Day #2 - Talking about Ideas

Book: Academic Vocabulary in use, Michael McCarthy et al, Cambridge Univ Press

source: http://boomonde.com/1228-3906-thickbox/cambridge-academic-vocabulary-in-use.jpg

Subject: Talking about Ideas (page 70-71)

Exercises:

Day #1 - Academic Vocabulary in Use

Book: Academic Vocabulary in use, Michael McCarthy et al, Cambridge Univ Press

source: http://boomonde.com/1228-3906-thickbox/cambridge-academic-vocabulary-in-use.jpg

Subject: Cause and effect (page 68-69)

From the book, I have learned that cause and effect are often used in academic writing especially to describe the relationship between event, object, variables, states or affairs. Its often used as conjunction like because, preposition like due to or because of, and adverb like therefore and consequently.