Applying Cognitive Grammar in the Foreign Language Classroom
Teaching English Tense and Aspect
1st Edition
Published on 12. January 2013
XI, 295 pages
978-3-642-27455-8 (ISBN)
Description
The monograph constitutes an attempt to demonstrate how Cognitive Grammar (CG) can be employed in the foreign language classroom with a view to aiding learners in better understanding the complexities of English grammar. Its theoretical part provides a brief overview of the main tenets of Cognitive Grammar as well as illustrating how the description of English tense and aspect can be approached from a traditional and a CG perspective. The empirical part reports the findings of an empirical study which aimed to compare the effects of instruction utilizing traditional pedagogic descriptions with those grounded in CG on the explicit an implicit knowledge of the Present Simple and Present Continuous Tenses. The book closes with the discussion of directions for further research when it comes to the application of CG to language pedagogy as well as some pedagogic implications
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Applying Cognitive Grammar in the Foreign Language Classroom
Teaching English Tense and Aspect
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Jakub Bielak | Miroslaw Pawlak
Applying Cognitive Grammar in the Foreign Language Classroom
Teaching English Tense and Aspect
Book
01/2013
1st Edition
Springer
€106.99
Shipment within 7-9 days
Content
Introduction to Cognitive Grammar.- Traditional and Cognitive Grammar descriptions of the English present tense, progressive aspect, and stative and dynamic verbs.- Pedagogical options in grammar teaching.- Applying Cognitive Grammar in the classroom.- Conclusions and Implications.
