Fostering language teaching efficiency through cognitive linguistics

Fostering language teaching efficiency through cognitive linguistics / edited by Sabine De Knop, Frank Boers, Antoon De Rycker.

The volume assesses and supplements Cognitive Linguistics (CL) proposals for instructed second language acquisition. CL research can help identify language elements that merit explicit teaching. The effectiveness of CL-inspired additions to the currently available armoury of teaching methods is put...

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Corporate Author: International L.A.U.D.-Symposium
Other Authors: Knop, Sabine de, Boers, Frank, Rycker, Antoon De, Pütz, Martin, 1955-, Sicola, Laura
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2010.
Series:Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 17.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Study and teaching > Congresses.
Language acquisition > Study and teaching > Congresses.
Cognitive grammar > Congresses.
Cognitive grammar
Language acquisition > Study and teaching
Language and languages > Study and teaching
Languages & Literatures.
Philology & Linguistics.
Conference papers and proceedings
Kongress.
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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.

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