A NEW APPROACH TO EXPLAINING ENGLISH TENSES (A CASE STUDY OF FUTURE SIMPLE)
Druzhinin Andrey Sergeyevich
MGIMO University
Abstract. The article deals with the explanatory aspect in EFL Grammar instruction within the cognitive-communicative approach to language by taking the so-called Future Simple tense as an example, the author show cases how at the explanatory stage of English Grammar instruction all grammar forms (verb aspect-tense forms, in particular) should be viewed as word combinations of verbs, one of which comes to be understood to such a point of abstraction (rather than ‘being auxiliary’), that it can be used together with another verb to express certain ideas of orientation in time and space.
Key words and phrases: когнитивно-коммуникативный подход, системное значение, языковая форма, грамматика, видовременные глагольные формы, Future Simple, cognitive-communicative approach, language-as-a-system meaning, language sign, practical grammar, aspect-tense verb forms, Future Simple tense
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