Variables in the mnemonic effectiveness of pictorial elucidation

Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 189-216

  Boers, Frank ^a   Lindstromberg, Seth ^b   Littlemore, Jeannette ^c   Stengers, Hélène ^d   Eyckmans, June ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Hilderstone College   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^e Erasmus University College   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cognitive style; Idioms; Imagery; Pictorial elucidation; Polysemes; Prepositions; Retention of meaning vs. retention of form; Semantic vs. structural elaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85119167132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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