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A NEW APPROACH TO EXPLAINING ENGLISH TENSES (A CASE STUDY OF FUTURE SIMPLE)

Andrey Sergeyevich Druzhinin
MGIMO University


Submitted: March 1, 2017
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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