Mind, metaphor, and language teaching
By: Randal Holme.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Language and languages -- Study and teaching; Metaphor; Language acquisition
Description: "This book explores how insights into figurative language can reshape what teachers do in the classroom. It reveals why some well-known methods work while others do not. Rejecting prescriptive pedagogical formulae, it recounts classroom episodes that help teachers rethink their own practice. Finally, the book sets out how we can use these episodes to reappraise language learning theory in a way that treats it as consonant with the cognitive nature of language."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.