Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency through Cognitive Linguistics /

Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency through Cognitive Linguistics / / ed. by Sabine De Knop, Antoon De Rycker, Frank Boers.

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In contexts of instructed second language acquisition there is a need for teaching methods that are optimally efficient, i.e. teaching interventions that generate a maximal return on learners' and teachers' investment of time and effort. In the past couple of decades, many researchers have...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Alejo, Rafael,
Attardo, Salvatore,
Barnden, John,
Boers, Frank,
Bunce, Caroline,
Chen, Phyllis,
Cho, Kanako,
De Knop, Sabine,
De Rycker, Antoon,
Deconinck, Julie,
Eddington, David,
Eyckmans, June,
Fong, Yu-Ying,
Fraser, Helen,
Hamrick, Phillip,
Herrera, Honesto,
Housen, Alex,
Hu, Ying-Hsueh,
Jing-Schmidt, Zhuo,
Juchem-Grundmann, Constanze,
Koester, Almut,
Krennmayr, Tina,
Lindstromberg, Seth,
Littlemore, Jeannette,
Neff-van Aertselaer, JoAnne,
Piquer, Ana,
Reveriego, Guadalupe,
Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco,
Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina,
Stengers, Helene,
Tang, Polly Liyen,
Taylor, John,
White, Michael,
Wolf, Hans-Georg,
Xiaoyan, Xia,
HerausgeberIn:
Boers, Frank,
De Knop, Sabine,
De Rycker, Antoon,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 17
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Physical Description:1 online resource (388 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Fostering language teaching efficiency through cognitive linguistics: Introduction
  • Part I – The importance of usage-based language acquisition, but why it may not suffice in contexts of second language learning
  • Language in the mind
  • Phrasal verbs in EFL course books
  • Basic-level salience in second language vocabulary acquisition
  • Does 'chunking' foster chunk-uptake?
  • Part II – How Cognitive Linguistics can inform decisions about what to teach
  • Having many meanings: A corpus study of Spanish EFL writers' construals with have
  • Seven events in three languages: Culture-specific conceptualizations and their implications for FLT
  • Canonicity and variation in idiomatic expressions: Evidence from business press headlines
  • The use of metaphor and metonymy in academic and professional discourse and their challenges for learners and teachers of English
  • Argument constructions and language processing: Evidence from a priming Experiment and pedagogical implications
  • Choosing motivated chunks for teaching
  • Part III – How Cognitive Lingusics can inform decisions about how to teach
  • Fostering the acquisition of English prepositions by Japanese learners with networks and prototypes
  • A prototype approach to auxiliary selection in the Italian passato prossimo
  • Obstacles to CM-guided L2 idiom interpretation
  • Corpus-informed integration of metaphor in materials for the business English classroom
  • Improving word learn-ability with lexical decomposition strategies
  • Cognitive theory as a tool for teaching pronunciation
  • Backmatter

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