THE FIGURE OF THE OBSERVER AS A KEY FACTOR IN THE SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION OF TENSES IN THE ENGLISH GRAMMAR CLASSROOM
Druzhinin Andrei Sergeevich, Pesina Svetlana Andreevna
MGIMO University
Saint Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences Saint Petersburg University Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University
Abstract. Today’s system of teaching English grammar at the stage of explication is based mostly on the principles of logical and structural-semantic analysis, which does not always help the learner to understand the essence of the target grammar unit. The article propounds ways of improving English tenses instruction with the help of analyzing such an important cognitive factor of language and discourse as the figure of Observer.
Key words and phrases: обучение грамматике, биология познания, фигура Наблюдателя, биокогнитивный подход, энактивизим, видовременные глагольные формы, категория вида и времени, teaching grammar, biology of cognition, figure of Observer, biocognitive approach, enactivism, aspect-tense verb forms, category of tense and aspect
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