Tyler, Andrea; Evans, Vyvyan. 2001. The relation between experience, conceptual structure and meaning. Book Article. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 63-108
Notes
-re 4 non-termporal functions of tense"The difficulty for language teachers, and one we have faced ourselves in classroom settings, is how to insightfully present the non-termporal uses associated with tense." (p. 64) (|but is that really the greatest difficulty?)- re analysis of how non-temporal uses of the tense are presented in grammar books"In sum, the typical ESL student appears to be presented with a partial list of uses of English tense, rather than a unified model, along with the advice that memorization of the arbitrary patterns is the best policy as there is no systematicity in the various non-temporal uses."We believe that insights from cognitive linguistics have real merit in offering more systematic, motivated accounts of how English works."(p. 98) - they admit that the explanation presented "would be largely inappropriate for language learners or even many language teachers." (p. 98)"further research is required in order to develop materials, based upon the foregoing proposals, which teachers could present in a classroom setting. Such must be the aim of cognitively oriented applied linguists." (p. 98-99)