English prepositions teaching a cognitive model of experimental research [4]
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论文字数:24600论文编号:org201210271227188129语种:英语 English地区:中国价格:$ 66
关键词:spatial metaphorimage schemaprototype theory
摘要:The thesis is mainly composed of six chapters. Chapter 1 firstly gives a briefintroduction to the background of this study and it stresses the necessity andsignificance of this study by pointing out the problems existing in the current teachingsituation of prepositions.
ce.The last chapter summarizes the study,indicates the implications for teaching,and points out the limitations of the study. Also included are some suggestions forfuture research.
5.2. Implications of the study
This cognitive approach brings new blood to the teaching of the prepositions.The conventional approach fails to analyze the semantic relationship between thesenses, regarding the complicated usage and senses as the fixed expressions. Thestudents are always asked to learn by rote, consequently incapable of using theprepositions smoothly in the utterances. The cognitive linguistics extends the usage ofprepositions from the domain of space to the abstract domains such as the domain oftime and state. The dispersed senses are collected into an organic and systematicwhole. The research shows the cognitive approach to the preposition teaching helpsthe students to have a deep comprehension of the senses of the prepositions and todiscover the inner semantic relationship between the senses. Thereby the students canconsolidate the understanding of the senses of prepositions, use the prepositionsproperly in the utterances and eventually cultivate the language ability.At the same time, this research has a positive effect on the other parts of Englishlearning. The experience helps the students to form more effective learning habits andstrategies in English learning, especially the part of vocabulary learning under theframework of cognitive linguistics. At the same time this research helps to reducepressure and arouse the interest in learning English.The cognitive approach also shows positive effect on lexicography. Most of thedictionaries spent several pages on listing the usage of prepositions arbitrarily. Thenew arrangements of the complicated senses of the prepositions in terms ofmetaphorical mapping from spatial domains to abstract domains can make it easier forthe readers to understand the relationship of the senses as a whole,which is alsobeneficial to increase the efficiency and accurateness of the mastery of theprepositions.
5.3 Limitations and suggestions for further studies
Though the result strongly supports the hypothesis, the researches still have somelimitations. The limitations are listed as follows. First, the study just chose thepreposition in and to for the experimental research and failed to make a study of otherprepositions. This result still needs to be testified in a broader scale. Besides,thecognitive training lasted only one month,which means the result needs to be furthertestified in a longer period. Thirdly, in order to guarantee that the experiment issmoothly carried on,the experiment confined itself to the study of the pure usages ofthe two prepositions and does not include the following relatively more complicatedusages like the fixed collocation and the interference from the other prepositions inthe same utterance. Whether the cognitive approach is effective in explaining theusage of fixed collocations with prepositions and whether it is equally effective indistinguishing the overlapped meanings of different prepositions still remainunanswered. These will be the aim of further studies.
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