Applying cognitive linguistics to teaching the Spanish prepositions por and para

Language Awareness

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2-18

  Lam, Yvonne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive linguistics; Explicit instruction; Foreign language pedagogy; Grammar; Prepositions; Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650925295     PISSN: 09658416     EISSN: 17477506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658410802147345     Document Type: Article

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