• Original research article
  • March 1, 2017
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A NEW APPROACH TO EXPLAINING ENGLISH TENSES (A CASE STUDY OF FUTURE SIMPLE)

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.

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Author information

Andrey Sergeyevich Druzhinin

MGIMO University

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Publication history

  • Published: March 1, 2017.

Keywords

  • 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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