Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Peter Robinson, Nick C Ellis
List Price: $69.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-8058-5352-0
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 02/25/2008
- Pages: 576
Table of Contents
An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Language Instruction. Section 1: Cognitive Linguistics and Cognition. Aspects of Attention in Language. Prototypes in Cognitive Linguistics. Cognitive Grammar As a Basis for Language Instruction. Word Grammar, Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Learning and Teaching. Spatial Language Learning and the Functional Geometric Framework. Language Without Grammar. Children’s First Language Acquistion from a Usage-based Perspective. Construction Learning and SLA. Usage-based Grammar and SLA. Section 2: Cognitive Linguistics, SLA and L2 Instruction. Learning to Talk About Motion in a Foreign Language. Gestures and SLA. Conceptual Transfer and Meaning Extensions. A Unified Model. Usage-based and Form-focussed SLA: The Associative Learning of Constructions, Learned-attention and the Limited L2 Endstate. Corpus-based Methods in Analyses of SLA Data. Teaching Construal: Cognitive Pedagogical Grammar. Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Instruction. Conclusions: Cognitive Linguistics, SLA and L2 Instruction - Issues for Research.



