Grammatical terminology as a tool: On the tense system and the ergonomics of its teaching practices in L2-Finnish Cover Image

Terminologia työvälineenä – aikamuotojärjestelmästä ja sen opetuskäytänteiden ergonomiasta S2-opetuksessa
Grammatical terminology as a tool: On the tense system and the ergonomics of its teaching practices in L2-Finnish

Author(s): Maria Kok
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühing (ERÜ)

Summary/Abstract: "e metalanguage used to describe grammatical categories can be addressed as a set of professional and cognitive tools that are used by the teacher and student together. "eir purpose is to facilitate the learning process, and their e$ciency can be evaluated from an ergonomic point of view. Ergonomics is a professionally oriented &eld of research and practice. "ough most professions have ergonomic applications of their own, for grammar or language education such practice has not yet been developed. If created, grammatical ergonomics could be an application of cognitive ergonomics which deals with representation of information, learning processes and the limitations of human memory. Also concept analysis and vocabulary studies could provide resources for grammatical ergonomics, for the cognitive tools used in language education consists for a good deal of terminology, de&nitions, explanations and examples.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 101-130
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Estonian