English Attack! – English 2.0

English Attack! always presents vocabulary items in meaningful context. All exercises, quizzes, polls, comments, games and social communication on English Attack! occurs in the context of specific content (Video Boosters or Photo Vocabs, for example) or community interaction (forums, friend-making and comments), allowing the learner to create multiple pathways to the target lexical item and thus favoring retention. You will never encounter a disembodied vocabulary list on English Attack!

We also fully subscribe to the Michael Lewis insight that "language consists of grammaticalized lexis, not lexicalized grammar." Lexical phrases, especially if they are drawn from authentic materials, equip learners with far better tools for meaningful communication than a rules‐driven approach, in recognition of the fact that we speak in language chunks, not language formulae. Over time, the patterns in the lexical phrases become familiar and create the basis of a subconscious awareness of proper structure. Vocabulary and usage are thus absorbed in parallel, as in a learner’s L1 language, and not compartmentalized which is all too often the case in traditional language teaching.