Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology.
Mastering the vocabulary of a foreign language is one of the most daunting tasks that language learners face. The immensity of the task is underscored by the realisation that it is not only single words but also numerous standardised phrases (idioms, collocations, etc.) that need to be acquired. The...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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Colección: | Applications of Cognitive Linguistics, v. 6.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Table of contents; How cognitive linguistics can foster effective vocabulary teaching; Using conceptual metaphors and metonymies in vocabulary teaching; Conceptual metaphoric meaning clues in two idiom presentation methods; How cognitive linguistic motivations influence the learning of phrasal verbs; A discovery approach to figurative language learning with the use of corpora; Variables in the mnemonic effectiveness of pictorial elucidation; Reasoning figuratively in early EFL: Some implications for the development of vocabulary.
- Translating the senses: Teaching the metaphors in winespeakWhat bilingual word associations can tell us; Factors which influence the process of collocation; The notion of boundedness/unboundedness in the foreign language classroom; Structural elaboration by the sound (and feel) of it; A quantitative comparison of the English and Spanish repertoires of figurative idioms; From empirical findings to pedagogical practice; Backmatter.