Developing Teaching Methods of Sentence Constructions: From a cognitive linguistic view

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02686
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Fukuoka University (2016-2017); The University of Kitakyushu (2015)
• Principal Investigator: Cho Kanako 福岡大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (70369833)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 認知言語学 / 英語教育 / 構文 / 学校認知英文法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

English and Japanese are different in that how native speakers construe events which they encode, and those differences appear in constructions. This study focuses on four constructions: the five sentence patterns, double object constructions, relative clauses, and there-constructions, and developed a new teaching approach that fills the cognitive gaps between Japanese learners of English and native speakers of English. This new approach will not force learners to memorize constructions or grammatical knowledge.

Free Research Field

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