著者

井上 加寿子

出版者

関西国際大学教育総合研究所

雑誌

教育総合研究叢書 = Studies on education (ISSN:18829937)

巻号頁・発行日

no.8, pp.47-57, 2015-03-31

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The purpose of this paper is to describe the common errors of the Japanese learners of English in their essay writings and to consider the background of those errors from a cognitive linguistic perspective. In this paper, we take typical errors of a possessive verb ‘have’ in English for example, and argue that those errors may be caused by the lack of the learners’ knowledge that the cognitive process of English is quite different from that of Japanese. In conclusion, we suggest that the cognitive linguistic approach can give the positive contribution to the teaching and learning English as a foreign language.