As a linguist and researcher, I am convinced that a teacher’s creativity does not conflict with academic rigor — it amplifies it. My artistic practice, including the exhibition “Present In The Past” at The Kildare Gallery in Dublin, is not merely an act of self-expression but a laboratory of ideas for designing curricula and teaching materials. Visual imagery, colour, and synesthetic metaphors often generate unconventional, authentic tasks for language learning.

The concept of the lexical approach has revolutionised the landscape of English language teaching, fundamentally challenging traditional grammar-based methodologies. Essentially, the lexical approach prioritises the teaching of 'chunks' of language—collocations, idioms, and fixed phrases—over isolated grammatical structures. At its core, this methodology contends that fluency is fostered when learners are exposed to and practice these multi-word units, thereby enabling smoother, more natural usage of the language.

English is not only the official language of many countries, but also the language of business, science, technology, and entertainment. As a result, learning English has become essential for anyone who wants to succeed in their personal and professional lives. In this article, I will discuss the modern communicative ways of learning English that are revolutionizing the traditional approach to language education.

Never-ending transformation and alteration are natural for modern languages. It is essential to maintain the relevance of knowledge. Hence, the question – how to motivate our personnel not to just accomplish a certain level of fluency suffice for a set of functions but to reach the highest peak in the learning process and how to do it with as much result?