It has been argued that glossy images in multimedia language textbooks or dictionaries
bring about a certain amount of effectiveness in foreign language learning. These results …

Learning spatial terms in a second language is often an arduous task which learners
perform with varying levels of success. While classroom-based studies of gesture have …

This study examines the efficacy of technology-enhanced visual glosses in explicit L2
vocabulary learning based on the concept of the image schema, which is a mental pattern of …

This article focuses on the treatment of the spatial preposition to in English learners'
dictionaries. Few in-depth studies have been undertaken on the preposition to though it has …

Unabhängig von unserem Geburtsort, unserer Kultur oder Sprache erfahren wir die Welt
über unseren Körper. Um zu verstehen, wie Menschen Sprachen erlernen ist es wichtig, die …

The focus of this paper is on the role that shared reference plays in communication and,
relatedly, on the way in which communicative needs drive the formation and development of …

The primary focus of this paper is to examine whether sign languages organize their locative
expressions similarly to spoken languages. Paving the way in the study of spatial relations …

34 MARIJA MAYA BRALA further specified in Bowerman and Choi (2001, pp. 484-487). In
these studies the authors undertake a crosslinguistic analysis of prepositional usage in 33 …

Spatial relations along the IN-ON continuum are primarily expressed in Thai Sign Language
(ThSL) through classifier constructions. In these constructions, the signer articulates the …

Ever since the Chomskyan views revolutionised the scientific study of language, we have
been expecting to see groundbreaking results relative to the workings of the human …