From empirical findings to pedagogical practice

Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 375-393

  Boers, Frank ^a   Lindstromberg, Seth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Hilderstone College   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect; Classroom activities; Deep processing; Dual coding; Grouping; Idioms; Semantic and structural elaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85119168130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (13)

1. Boers, Frank 2003 Applied linguistics perspectives on cross-cultural variation in conceptual metaphor. Metaphor and Symbol 18: 231-238.
2. Boers, Frank, and Seth Lindstromberg 2005 Finding ways to make phrase-learning feasible: The mnemonic effect of alliteration. System 33: 225-238.
3. Boers, Frank, and Seth Lindstromberg 2006 Means of mass memorisation of multiword expressions, part two: The power of images. Humanising Language Teaching 8www.hltmag.co.uk
4. Boers, Frank, and Halane Stengers Forthc. Adding sound to the picture: An exercise in motivating the lexical composition of metaphorical idioms in English, Spanish and Dutch. In Confronting Metaphor in Use: An Applied Linguistic Approach, Lynne Cameron, Maria Sophia Zanotto, and Marilda C. Cavalcanti (eds.), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
5. Boers, Frank, Murielle Demecheleer, and June Eyckmans 2004 Etymological elaboration as a strategy for learning figurative idioms. In Vocabulary in a Second Language: Selection, Acquisition and Testing, Paul Bogaards and Batia Laufer. (eds.), 53-78. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
6. Boers, Frank, June Eyckmans, and Halane Stengers 2007 Presenting figurative idioms with a touch of etymology: More than mere mnemonics? Language Teaching Research 11: 43-62.
7. Boers, Frank, June Eyckmans, Jenny Kappel, Halane Stengers, and Murielle Demecheleer 2006 Formulaic sequences and perceived oral proficiency: Putting a lexical approach to the test. Language Teaching Research 10: 245-261.
8. Keysar, Boaz, and Briget Bly 1995 Intuitions of the transparency of idioms: Can one keep a secret by spilling the beans? Journal of Memory and Language 34: 89-109.
9. Lindstromberg, Seth 2004 Language Activities for Teenagers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
10. Lindstromberg, Seth, and Frank Boers 2005a From movement to metaphor with manner-of-movement verbs. Applied Linguistics 26: 241-261.
11. Lindstromberg, Seth, and Frank Boers 2005b Means of mass memorisation of multiword expressions, part one: The power of sounds. Humanising Language Teaching 7.www.hltmag.co.uk Pilgrims.
12. Forthc. The mnemonic effect of noticing alliteration. Applied Linguistics.
13. Malt, Barbara C., and Brianna Eiter 2004 Even with a green card, you can be put out to pasture and still have to work: Non-native intuitions of the transparency of common English idioms. Memory and Cognition 32: 896-904.