Lexis Integrated Into the Curriculum: Key to Enhance Communicative Competence in English

Teaching and learning lexis is a challenge for EFL teachers and learners. Selecting the lexical items from an extensive corpus can be difficult for teachers. For learners, it can be overwhelming to learn all these lexical items. Curricula that integrate the lexical tenets and provide guidelines on instructing lexis should be more frequent. A curriculum and a syllabus that incorporate and enable this challenging task can be beneficial. This article of reflection discusses the number of word families and some Colombian government educational policies, while advocating for the integration of explicit lexical tenets into the curriculum to aid learners in developing sound lexical competence and thereby enhancing communicative competence.