Applying Cognitive Linguistics in the English Language Classroom
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Applying Cognitive Linguistics in the English Language Classroom

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Applying Cognitive Linguistics in the English Language Classroom

About this book

This book promotes greater interest in cognitive linguistics (CL) among English language teaching (ELT) practitioners, while offering researchers a more direct line toward shaping pedagogy. The book presents a collection of CL-informed ready-to-use pedagogical summaries and activities that teachers without background knowledge in CL can take directly to their classrooms. Importantly, the book targets traditionally challenging areas of English instruction by focusing on vocabulary, grammar, and aspects of discourse and pragmatics.

Each chapter tackles a different topic of the English language and includes the following sections: 1) introduction of the challenge(s) with the said English language topic, 2) explanation of the CL approach and how it can mitigate the observed challenge(s), 3) practically-oriented description of the CL-inspired teaching activities, positioned within a specific pedagogical context but easily transferable to other contexts. All chapters include insights that are highly practical and easily implemented in different contexts of ELT. The ultimate goal of the volume is to motivate teachers to try new pedagogical tools and to influence English language pedagogy through the research-documented powers of applied cognitive linguistics.

Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2026
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781350498747
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education Curricula

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Figures
  8. Tables
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 Introduction: Delivering on the Promise of Cognitive Linguistics
  11. 2 A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Teaching Idioms: Helping Second Language Learners Make Sense of Figurative Expressions
  12. 3 Teaching Synonyms by Exploring the Roles of Salience and Construal
  13. 4 Teaching English Collocations by Exploring Their Usage Patterns and Underlying Motivations
  14. 5 Bring It Up: Illustrating Phrasal Verbs for Young Beginners
  15. 6 A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Teaching L2 Learners the Noncentral Senses of English Prepositions
  16. 7 Embodied Pedagogy: Teaching English Number Marking to Speakers of Classifier Languages
  17. 8 A Better Way to Teach English Articles: Framing Nouns
  18. 9 Concept-Based Language Instruction of English Modal Verbs: A Cognitive Linguistics-Inspired Approach
  19. 10 Introducing the Present Perfect Through a Cognitive Linguistics Frame
  20. 11 Using Cognitive Linguistic Tools for Teaching English Cohesive Devices of Contrast
  21. 12 Temporal Cohesion and the Teaching of the English Tense-Aspect System: An Applied Cognitive Linguistics Approach
  22. 13 If-Conditionals Made Easy: A Cognitive Approach with the Head-and-Shoulders Diagram
  23. 14 Teaching Modals of Obligation and Necessity to Support English Learner Pragmatic Development
  24. Notes on Contributors
  25. Index

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