Language learning is one of the most complicated feats that human beings accomplish. Any
number of very real reasons exist as to why L2 learning presents tremendous challenges …

During the past 15 years there has generally been a move away from attempts to apply
theoretical models of language to issues in second language (L2) pedagogy. Attention has …

The cognitive linguistics movement consists of different theories that share at least two
important conceptions about linguistic organization. The first one, most thoroughly …

Applied cognitive linguistics is concerned with the acquisitional and pedagogical
implications of cognitive linguistics in second and foreign language teaching/learning. In the …

Few would maintain that language instruction is easy. Nor can the advice of linguists always
be counted on to make it any easier. Unless they are themselves experienced language …

Cognitive linguistics is a branch of linguistics which has attracted a good deal of attention in
the past few years. As I show in this book, it has the potential to reshape thinking about how …

This book illustrates the ways that cognitive linguistics, a relatively new paradigm in
language studies, can illuminate and facilitate language research and teaching. The first …

Cognitive Linguistics (CL) makes the functional assumption that form is motivated by
meaning. CL also analyses form‐meaning pairings as products of how cognition structures …

This collection of twelve papers demonstrates that the concepts developed within the
Cognitive Linguistics movement afford an insightful perspective on several important areas …

The kind of grammatical instruction dispensed in the L2 classroom obviously depends on
the teacher's view of what grammar is, and how students process it. Virtually every practical …