Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Foreign Language Teaching / / ed. by Michel Achard, Susanne Niemeier.

This collection of twelve papers demonstrates that the concepts developed within the Cognitive Linguistics movement afford an insightful perspective on several important areas of second language acquisition and pedagogy. In the first part of the book, three papers show how three Cognitive Linguistic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:2004
Language:English
Series:Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (283 p.) :; Illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Cognitive Linguistics, Language
  • Acquisition, and Pedagogy
  • Expressing Motion Events in a Second Language: a
  • Cognitive Typological Perspective
  • Construal, Convention, and Constructions in L2
  • Speech
  • Input Versus Transfer? - The Role of Frequency and
  • Similarity in the Acquisition of L2 Prepositions
  • Linguistic and Cultural Relativity - Reconsidered
  • for the Foreign Language Classroom
  • The Figure / Ground Gestalt and Language Teaching
  • Methodology
  • "Cultural Scripts": a New Medium for Ethnopragmatic
  • Instruction
  • Grammatical Instruction in the Natural Approach: a
  • Cognitive Grammar View
  • Teaching Temporal Connectors and their Prototypical
  • Non-temporal Extensions
  • Expanding Learners' Vocabulary Through Metaphor
  • Awareness: What Expansion, What Learners, What Vocabulary?
  • A Cognitive Linguistic View of Polysemy in English
  • and its Implications for Teaching
  • Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Pedagogical
  • Grammar: The Case of Over
  • Backmatter