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Part ¢ñ English Prepositions and Related Research Strands Chapter 1 Research Objectives: in, on, at Chapter 2 Research Strands in Teaching: Rote Learning vs. Meaningful Learning Chapter 3 Cognitive Linguistic Framework for English Prepositions 3.1 Domains: the foundation of illustrating prepositional senses 3.1.1 The definition of the concept domain 3.1.2 Domains for English prepositions 3.2 Image Schema: the concrete structure, to extend to abstract prepositional senses 3.2.1 The definition of image schemas 3.2.2 Properties of image schemas 3.2.3 Categorization of image schemas 3.2.4 Concepts illustrated by image schemas 3.2.5 The image schemas of in, on and at 3.2.6 Summary 3.3 Metaphor: the mechanism of cross-domain mappings 3.3.1 Conceptual metaphor 3.3.2 The nature of metaphor 3.3.3 The structure of metaphor 3.3.4 Structure the abstract senses of prepositions by metaphor Chapter 4 Summary Part ¢ò Design of Teaching and Experiments Chapter 5 Methodology of the Pilot Study: Test of Item Difficulties 5.1 Material 5.2 Participants 5.3 Study procedure 5.4 Analyses 5.5 Summary ¡­¡­ Part ¢ó Experimental Analyses and Results Part ¢ô Finding and Discussions Part ¢õ Conclusion References Appendix Declaration Acknowledgements