Making Progress Simpler? - Applying Cognitive Grammar to Tense-Aspect Teaching

This study presents a new approach to tense-aspect teaching from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. Its aims are twofold: first, to provide a coherent account of the English tense-aspect system. To this end, a synthesis of Langacker's Cognitive Grammar theory and Fauconnier's Mental Space approach will be put forward. Second, to test the applicability and effectiveness of CL-informed learning materials in the language classroom. For that purpose, an empirical analysis was conducted involving German students of English at an upper-intermediate level. The study therefore addresses linguists and language teachers alike.

List of contents

Contents: A description of the English tense-aspect system from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics - Empirical study on tense-aspect teaching in the German higher education context - Langacker's Cognitive Grammar - Fauconnier's Mental Space Theory.

About the author

Monika Reif works as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany). She studied English and German Linguistics, Literature and Culture at the University of Koblenz-Landau, the University of Western Australia and University College London. In 2006 she received a teaching degree and in 2008 a master¿s degree. This dissertation was funded by the Graduate School for Teaching and Learning Processes (UPGradE) at Landau University.

Product details

• Authors: Monika Reif
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9783631611203
• ISBN: 978-3-631-61120-3
• No. of pages: 247
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 18 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft; Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft; DASK - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture; DASK - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Langu; DASK ¿ Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics