Listening comprehension lies at the heart of language learning, but it is the least understood
and least researched skill. This paper brings together recent research and developments in …

Listening is probably the least explicit of the four language skills, making it the most difficult
skill to learn. This chapter begins with a brief overview of cognitive processes involved in …

'Metonymy'is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of
shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

" The first edition of Researching Higher Education has been a very helpful resource for
those trying to make sense of the field of higher education. Malcolm Tight has accomplished …

Metaphor is recognised as an important way of thinking–constructing analogies and making
connections between ideas–and an important way of using language–to explain abstract …

This comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible text on idiom use, learning, and teaching
approaches the topic with a balance of sound theory and extensive research in cognitive …

Tools for Teaching in an Educationally Mobile World examines the challenges that
undergraduate and postgraduate teachers often encounter when working with students from …

Recent research in cognitive linguistics has shown that idiomatic phrases are
decomposable and analyzable and that the individual words in idiomatic phrases …

This article describes a study that investigated the ways in which Bangladeshi students
interpreted metaphors used by their lecturers during a short course at a British university …