Hunting for a missing link: between cognitive framework and classroom practices

• Authors: Kamila Turewicz

Abstracts

EN

The problem discussed in this article is the result of a conference on research on the importance of cognitive linguistics for teaching / learning foreign languages. Despite the high methodological standards, the introduction of cognitive grammar in the classroom showed a "missing link" between concepts and reality. In the article, the author describes exercises that should help students discover the correlation between language and somatic experience. The workshop consists of two stages: (i) introduction to the concept of image patterns as conceptual structures of our organization of cognitive function; (II) sample analysis of patterns of image organizing the semantic structure of the chosen language expressions.

Keywords

EN

cognitivism; methodology; linguistics; cognitive grammar; teaching; ESL; EFL

• Publisher: Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi
• Journal: Językoznawstwo
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 13-26

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Kamila Turewicz

• Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi

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Identifiers

DOI

10.25312/2391-5137.10/2016_13-26

Biblioteka Nauki

2216297