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

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author: International L.A.U.D.-Symposium
Other Authors: Knop, Sabine de, Boers, Frank, Rycker, Antoon De, Pütz, Martin, 1955-, Sicola, Laura
Other title:Inside the learner's mind.
Format: Conference Proceeding 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.
Conference papers and proceedings.
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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