Open AccessEffects of Teaching Approach Based on Three-dimensional Grammar on Grade Eight Students’ Acquisition of English Phrasal Verbs
Author(s) -
Mingxing Tao,
Jiaxin Wang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
theory and practice in language studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-0692
pISSN - 1799-2591
DOI - 10.17507/tpls.1109.10
Subject(s) - grammar , computer science , vocabulary , linguistics , metaphor , conceptual metaphor , english grammar , psychology , natural language processing , philosophy
Phrasal verbs, an essential but complex aspect of English vocabulary, are difficult for Chinese EFL learners to acquire, whose first language lacks of phrasal verbs. This quasi-experiment explores the effectiveness of the teaching approach based on three-dimensional grammar on the acquisition of English phrasal verbs by Chinese middle school students compared with that based on conceptual metaphor theory. The finding is that there is a significant difference between the effect of three-dimensional grammar teaching and that of conceptual metaphor teaching, and the former is of great benefit for learners to acquire English phrasal verbs.