TEACHING AND LEARNING POLYWORDS THROUGH COMICS: A STUDY

The paper?s present interest mainly lies in an attempt to display how polywords can be taught through comics using The Lexical Approach. The objectives of the present paper are four fold: first, it provides an introduction to the Lexical Approach. Secondly, offers varied views on the concept of ?polywords?, and underscores the importance of polywords in the teaching of English. Thirdly, it highlights the advantages of using comics as a tool to teach polywords to the learners of English. Fourthly, it includes a few exercises and activities for the polywords which have been identified in the comics to aid learners in reinforcing these chunks in their mental lexicon.