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Lack of emphasis on NPs in ESL



 
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Lack of emphasis on NPs in ESL Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:35 am  Lack of emphasis on NPs in ESL
 

Michael Lewis has said, after Chomsky, that "sentences" consist of NP (noun phrase) + VP (verb phrase). Lewis goes on to claim that ESL has "emphasised VP (structures) and N (vocabulary) but ignored NP.

He always claims that NPs "have hardly penetrated into language teaching at all". Lewis thinks this is an unfortunate situation.

What do you think?
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