This paper is aimed at presenting the effects and influences of the core schemas in teaching the meanings of auxiliary verbs. In Japanese traditional English classes, each meaning of auxiliary verbs tends to be taught separately. The teachers normally do not teach that every one of the auxiliary verbs has its own common image, or "core". The students have to memorize each meaning mechanically. This "core approach" has been catching a lot of attention, but this core approach has not been practiced in EFL classrooms. Under these circumstances, the author has attempted to investigate the influences given by the core approach. The influences of the core schemas in teaching auxiliary verbs were investigated in Fujii (in press). The results showed no statistic significance between the class using the core schemas and the class without them. But the students thought highly of the schemas in memorizing and understanding the image. Based on this experiment, I tried to conduct the similar experiment again to the technical college students except one thing; presenting some usage examples for each meaning of auxiliary verbs along with the core schemas in order to promote the image making. In this paper, I will report what effects were observed, and make some suggestions on English teaching with core schemas or image.
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