Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Learning the Semantics of English to, for and at: an Experimental Investigation

摘要: Recent years have witnessed growing interest in cognitive linguistics (CL) and its potential insights for L2 learning. However, few experimental investigations applied a CL perspective to instructed English prepositions represent promising target the application of learning since, contrary traditional approaches, represents many meanings associated with single preposition as being systematically related principled ways. This article lays out fundamentals analysis semantics reports on quasi-experimental study examining efficacy applying approach to, at. Comparison preand post-test results show significant gain scores (p >.0003), indicating that group 14 advanced learners who received instruction based experienced substantial improvement their understanding three prepositions.