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
Summary
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 to the test in classroom experiments
