A Critical Review of English Education (22)

Since 21 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 ten days ago, we have mainly concentrated on the pronunciation factors.

　pronunciation (11)

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

Watch the following video concerning the schwa [ə] in “This is a pen.”:
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/12TrS9CDuI6xKj-uY1mjg7_bm88uh4QcZ/view?usp=sharing>


I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.