Making Progress Simpler?

Monika Reif works as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany). She studied English and German Linguistics, Literature and Culture at the University of Koblenz-Landau, the University of Western Australia and University College London. In 2006 she received a teaching degree and in 2008 a master’s degree. This dissertation was funded by the Graduate School for Teaching and Learning Processes (UPGradE) at Landau University.

• Contents: A description of the English tense-aspect system from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics – Empirical study on tense-aspect teaching in the German higher education context – Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar – Fauconnier’s Mental Space Theory.