UNDERSTANDING TEMPORAL WORDS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Samadova Svetlana Jontoshevna, Researcher of Chirchik state pedagogical university
Keywords:
Temporal words, tense and aspect, linguistics, language teaching, English learners, communication clarity, understanding of time, time relations.Abstract
This article explores the importance of teaching temporal words to English learners, emphasizing their role in enhancing communication clarity, improving narrative skills, and facilitating the understanding of complex verb tenses. The article also highlights significant contributions from linguists like Bernard Comrie and Carlota Smith, who have studied temporality in language, as well as contemporary researchers like Angelika Kratzer and Nirit Kadmon. The piece concludes by discussing effective teaching strategies, such as contextual learning, visual aids, and explicit grammar instruction, to help learners master temporal expressions and achieve language fluency.
References
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Smith, C. S. The Parameter of Aspect. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.
Kratzer, A. Modals and Conditionals. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Kadmon, N. Formal Pragmatics: Semantics, Pragmatics, Presupposition, and Focus. Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
