Teaching English locative prepositions: a cognitive perspective

Prepositions are notoriously hard to learn, and frequently subject to negative transfer. In addition, prepositional meanings are commonly extended from the spatial to abstract domains and are, as a consequence, often unpredictable and arbitrary. Traditional approaches to second language preposition...

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Published in:	Linguistica
Main Author:	Silva Bratož
Format:	Article
Language:	German
Published:	University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2014-12-01
Subjects:	cognitive linguistics prepositions cross-linguistic transfer foreign language teaching CEFR
Online Access:	https://journals.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/2599