A Critical Review of English Education (684)

A Critical Review of English Education (684)

Since 683 (plus some) days ago, we have picked out and been discussing the following sentence,

　This is a pen.

which unfortunately has long been stigmatized as a typical one of the most unexpected utterances in daily spoken English.

However, isn’t this kind of statement a mere echo of others―perhaps? What’s more, isn’t it possibly just a unilateral blanket opinion?

With this awareness of the issue, we have been executing “factor decomposition” as follows in pursuit of acquiring a more penetrating vision to locate the latent problems involved:

　imagination　usefulness　grammar　pronunciation

Since 520 (plus some) days ago, we have concentrated on grammar factors again.

　 grammar (577)

First, there is often a “discrepancy” between a sentence’s “phonetic configuration” and its “syntactic structure.”

Watch the following video:
<http://raspberries.jp/t640.mp4>

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.