Keyword: «lexical approach»

The article describes reading as a type of speech activity and basis of the lexical approach of learning foreign languages, particularly, studying lexical units of certain theme (thematic vocabulary). The study is revealed on the example of the book «Catch Me If You Can» by the American author Frank Abagnale.

Objective of the article is to prove the usefulness of the lexical approach when working with professionally-oriented text at non-linguistic university. The article considers the basic principles of the lexical approach in foreign language teaching. A list of exercises to work with collocations is presented. The author provides lexical approach usage advice and describes peculiarities of non-linguistic students’ language teaching.