Cognitive Semantic ways of teaching figurative phrases

Review of Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 227-261

  Boers, Frank ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Idioms; instructed second language acquisition; Metaphor awareness; Motivation; Phrasal verbs; Receptive versus productive knowledge; Retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047687054     PISSN: 18779751     EISSN: 1877976X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/rcl.9.1.11boe     Document Type: Review

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