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Title Cognitive linguistic approaches to teaching vocabulary and phraseology / edited by Frank Boers, Seth Lindstromberg
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 396 pages) : illustrations
Series Applications of cognitive linguistics, 1861-4078 ; 6
Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 6.
Contents How cognitive linguistics can foster effective vocabulary teaching / Frank Boers and Seth Lindstromberg -- Using conceptual metaphors and metonymies in vocabulary teaching / Márta Beréndi, Szilvia Csábi and Zoltán Kövecses -- Conceptual metaphoric meaning clues in two idiom presentation methods / Sophia Skoufaki -- How cognitive linguistic motivations influence the learning of phrasal verbs / Nora Condon -- A discovery approach to figurative language learning with the use of corpora / Fiona MacArthur and Jeannette Littlemore -- Variables in the mnemonic effectiveness of pictorial elucidation / Frank Boers [and others] -- Reasoning figuratively in early EFL : some implications for the development of vocabulary / Ana María Piquer Píriz -- Translating the senses : teaching the metaphors in winespeak / Rosario Caballero and Ernesto Suárez-Toste -- What bilingual word associations can tell us / Marjolijn H. Verspoor -- Factors which influence the process of collocation / Crayton Walker -- The notion of boundedness/unboundedness in the foreign language classroom / Susanne Niemeier -- Structural elaboration by the sound (and feel) of it / Frank Boers and Seth Lindstromberg -- A quantitative comparison of the English and Spanish repertoires of figurative idioms / Frank Boers and Hélène Stengers -- From empirical findings to pedagogical practice / Frank Boers and Seth Lindstromberg
Summary 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. There is thus a clear need for instructional methods that help learners tackle this task, and yet few proposals for vocabulary instruction have so far gone beyond techniques for rote-learning and familiar means of promoting of noticing. The reason for this is that vocabulary and phraseology have long b
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Subject Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
Vocabulary -- Study and teaching
Phraseology -- Study and teaching
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Study & Teaching.
Language and languages -- Study and teaching
Vocabulary -- Study and teaching
Form Electronic book
Author Boers, Frank.
Lindstromberg, Seth, 1949-
LC no. 2007052032
ISBN 9783110199161
3110199165
1282194690
9781282194694
9786612194696
6612194693