Applying cognitive linguistics to second language learning and teaching
By: Jeannette Littlemore
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780230219489
Description: "Cognitive linguistics is a relatively new discipline which is rapidly becoming mainstream and influential, particularly in the area of second language teaching. This book looks at how cognitive linguistics can inform our teaching, and lead to intriguing suggestions for alternative ways of presenting grammar and vocabulary in the language classroom"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I see less of the surroundings. The story feels different': Construal and Second Language Learning; title: More on Categories: Words, Morphemes, Parts of Speech, 'Grammar rules', Phonological Features and Intonation Patterns as Radial Categories; title: More about Spinsters and their Cats: Encyclopaedic Knowledge and Second Language Learning; title: 'Eyebrow heads' and 'yummy mummies': Metaphor and Second Language Learning; title: 'You'll find Jane Austen in the basement' ... or will you? Metonymy and Second Language Learning; title: What Have Bees, Macaque Monkeys and Humans got in Common? Embodied Cognition, Gesture and Second Language Learning; title: 'Loud suits' and 'sharp cheese': Motivated language and Second Language Learning; title: 'Brian sent Antarctica a walrus': Construction Grammars and Second Language Learning.