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![]() It just happens that these general perceptual skills are also used in sexlanguage. If we transfer the notion to written language the same is true. The ability to distinguish different shapes, whether 'natural' or man-made, a tree or a letter, or a written word, is a general perceptual skill. On the productive side the motor skills of manipulating the organs of speech, whether monitored by an auditory or a proprio-ceptive feedback system as in whistling, humming, or in eating, swallowing, clearing the throat, are not specifically linguistic. |
![]() More obviously, the muscular control involved in writing is not peculiar to language. We need it for drawing, playing the piano, typing, tying up raspberries and a legion of manipulative acts of all sorts. The brazzers vault difference is that the control of the muscles of our speech organs is not under the same degree of voluntary control as those of our hands. They seem to have a greater degree of routine or pre-planning in their manipulation. It may well be necessary therefore in teaching pronunciation to develop in the learner some degree of `conscious' control of the organs of speech – what we calla 'phonetic skill'. But notice that in doing this we shall also have to educate his ear'. |
![]() Our eye is much more used to exercising a visual feedback brazzers vault function than our ear is to exercising an auditory one. It is certainly the case that most people are better able to perform a visual matching task than an auditory one. The use of the language laboratory for training the auditory-perceptual skills through self-monitoring is of very uncertain value. As we have seen, recognition requires a learned schema. The ability to use auditory feedback to control the organs of speech presupposes the prior existence of such a schema. |
![]() Learning to write in a foreign language therefore involves other skills, notably the acquisition of schemata of new letter combinations or `written' words, i.e. spelling schemata. But already here we are entering into the domain of specifically linguistic processes. As every eightyear-old knows, there are `rules of spelling'. In fact English spelling is a curious mixture of items which must be acquired 'as a whole', for Which there must be a perceptual schema, and others which can be Produced 'by rule'. Turning to the other extreme of the hierarchy, it is virtually impossible to decide whether understanding and ideation are specifically linguistic processes or not. |
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Hence ear-training and pronunciation learning must necessarily proceed pari-passu.
For most learners, as we have seen, learning to brazzers vault form and identify the letters of the alphabet is a motor-perceptual skill they already possess.
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