Cognitive linguistic approaches to teaching vocabulary and phraseology / edited by Frank Boers, Seth Lindstromberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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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