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- 124 6. The principle of the exclusion of the mother tongue nnrJ the primacy of the foreign language as a means of semanticizing should be used only when it is not time consuming and not confusing

. II. THE ECLECTIC APPROACH Harold E. Palmer Harold E. Palmer contributed to ELT methodology and linguistics with a number of works. Now I would like to concentrate on two of his most important works to describe his methodological principles and mainly the ones referring to teaching lexis. They are as follows: Hie Scientific Study and Teaching of Languages and The Principles of Language-Study. Palmer does not reject the direct method, but 1*3 does not accept it completely either. As a follower of Henry Sweet he determined the linguistic basis of foreign language teaching in an exact way. Palmer describes his eclectic approach in the following way in The Principles of Language-Study

: "This attitude is fairly well designated by the term eclectic; it implies the deliberate choice of all things which are good, a judicious and reasoned selection of all the diverse factors the sum of which may constitute a complete and homogeneous system." (108) A special emphasis is laid on how to teacli lexis in Palmer's eclectic approach. Palmer classifies the lexical units like this: 1. Monologs - words considered merely as conventional orthographic units of vocabulary: dog, beautiful, go, slow, up etc. 2. Polylogs - units composed of two or more monologs in juxtaposition but functionally and semantically equal to a monolog. Polylogs are often called phrases, groupwords or word groups: in case, leave off, every year, etc.