ژمارە 59 · 2024
A Cognitive Grammar Approach to Teaching Negative Suffixes in English as a Foreign Language
The present paper sheds new light on teaching the English negative suffixes -free and -less to Kurdish EFL students. To do so, the study weighs two pedagogical models in their instruction: traditional and modern. The traditional pedagogical model is form-focused, therefore it is of limited value for the development of language acquisition. The modern pedagogical model, inspired by Cognitive Grammar, is meaning-oriented, emphasizing semantic aspects of grammatical structures, and improving critical thinking skills. The study highlights the usefulness of Cognitive Grammar pr