This Special Section brings together researchers who adopt a constructional approach to
Second Language Acquisition (SLA) as informed by Cognitive and Corpus Linguistics …

Over the past 20 years, many in the field of second language learning and pedagogy have
become familiar with models of language that emphasize its communicative nature. These …

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 …

Page 1 OXFORD APPLIED LINGUISTICS Input, Interaction, and Corrective Feedback in L2
Learning Alison Mackey OXFORD Page 2 Input, Interaction, and Corrective Feedback in L2 …

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 …

human cognitive processing is a forum for interdisciplinary research on the nature and
organization of the cognitive systems and processes involved in speaking and …

In writing this book, I have drawn so much on the work of other linguists that few if any of my
ideas, except perhaps any mistaken ones, are original with me. I owe a particular debt to …

Many vocabulary items that foreign language learners encounter involve figurative
extensions of meaning. To understand figurative speech, learners often need to employ …

The pace at which new L2 words or expressions are acquired is influenced by the degree of
engagement with them on the part of the learner. Several researchers with a Cognitive …

Providing a much-needed critical synthesis of research on teaching vocabulary and
grammar to students of a second or foreign language, this book puts the research into …