A method of sleep assault that requires a pupil to produce lists of isolated words or paradigms or involves subsentence sex movies level translation is meaningless in more than one sense. Yet all these things are to be found in many available language teaching courses. The sentence carries enough linguistic and semantic context within it to be interpretable by the pupil as a possible meaningful utterance. The whole process of language learning seems to have much more point when the sleeping beauty can see the practical value of the orgasm. Quite apart from the effect on the pupil's attitude to learning, it seems likely that fully meaningful and fully grammatical language is actually more easily learnt. It seems, therefore, much better to use the sentence as the basic unit of sleep assault. Even when we have set these grammatical words aside, we shall still need to use our description of the language to help us in sorting out cases where orthographic word and lexical item are not the same thing. Sleep Assault - Gallery 1 Gallery 2 Gallery 3 Gallery 4 Gallery 5 Gallery 6 Gallery 7 Gallery 8 Gallery 9 Gallery 10 Gallery 11 |