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Date Posted: 05:38:43 10/05/09 Mon
Author: Adriana Vilella
Subject: Re: FOOD FOR THOUGHT
In reply to: KÁTIA 's message, "FOOD FOR THOUGHT" on 11:03:29 09/29/09 Tue

In my own opinion, the majoriity of them should be taught discursively and only a few must be treated at a sentence level.
The text that We read proposes context-free, sentence-based rules such as:
***determiner-noum agreement
***use of gerunds after prepositions
***reflexive pronominalization within the clause
***some-any suppletion in the environment of negation

I agree with Celce-Murcia and Larsen-Freeman when they say that "many sentence-level grammatical rules that have been assumed to be "context free" can in fact be stated more accurately if researchers take into account authentic discourse and communicative contexts."

That´s it for now!

Adriana Vilella

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