TY - BOOK ID - 14307463 TI - Applying cognitive grammar in the foreign language classroom : teaching English tense and aspect AU - Bielak, Jakub. AU - Pawlak, Mirosaw. PY - 2013 SN - 21937648 SN - 3642274544 3642433081 3642274552 1299197507 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - English language --Spoken English -- Study and teaching. KW - English language --Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Cognitive grammar. KW - English language KW - Grammar. KW - Tense. KW - Aspect. KW - Cognitive linguistics KW - Verbal aspect KW - Analysis and parsing KW - Diagraming KW - Linguistics. KW - Applied linguistics. KW - Applied Linguistics. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Verb KW - Composition and exercises KW - Grammar, Comparative and general. KW - Linguistics KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14307463 AB - 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. ER -