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Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Learning and Teaching, 7.5 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-05-08

Swedish name: Kognitiv lingvistik och andraspråksinlärning och undervisning
This syllabus is valid: 2015-06-01 and until further notice
Course code: 1EN068
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: English: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Linguistics: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Language Studies
Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2015-09-30

Required Knowledge

Three 30-credit courses in English, or similar qualifications. In order to be eligible for the course, applicants must have completed an introductory and an advanced course in linguistics at university level or have similar qualifications.

Literature

Valid from: 2015 week 23

Achard Michel
Teaching contrual: Cognitive pedagogical grammar.
Included in:
Handbook of cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition
First published 2008 : New York : Routledge : 2008 : x, 566 s. :
Mandatory

Boers Frank
Metaphor awareness and vocabulary retention. Applied Linguistics 21(4): 553-571.
DOI: 10.1093/applin/21.4.553 : 2000 :
Mandatory

Choosing motivated chunks for teaching.
Boers F., Deconinck J., Lindstromberg S.
Included in:
Fostering language teaching efficiency through cognitive linguistics
Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter Mouton : 2010 : Online-Ressource :
Mandatory

Presenting figurative idioms with a touch of etymology: more than mere mnemonics?
Boers Frank, Eyckmans June, Stengers Hélène
Language Teaching Research 11, 1 (2007): 43-62. DOI: 10.1177/1362168806072460 : 2007 :
Mandatory

Variables in the mnemonic effectiveness of pictorial elucidation
Boers Frank, Lindstromberg Seth, Littlemore Jeanette, Stengers Hélène, Eyckmans June
Included in:
Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology
Berlin, New York : Mouton de Gruyter : 2008 : Online-Ressource : 189-216 pages
Mandatory

Langacker Ronald W.
The relevance of Cognitive Grammar for language pedagogy.
Included in:
Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar
Berlin, New York : Mouton de Gruyter : 2008 : Online-Ressource :
Mandatory

Littlemore Jeannette.
Applying cognitive linguistics to second language learning and teaching
Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan : 2009. : 1 online resource (xii, 212 p.) :
Table of Contents / Abstracts
ISBN: 9780230245259 (electronic bk.)
Mandatory
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A comparison of the effects of image-schema-based instruction and translation-based instruction on the acquisition of L2 polysemous words.
Morimoto Shun, Loewen Shawn
Language Teaching Research 11,3 (2007); 347–372. DOI: 10.1177/1362168807081181 : 2007 :
Mandatory

Niemeier Susanne
The notion of boundedness/unboundedness in the foreign language classroom.
Included in:
Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology
Berlin, New York : Mouton de Gruyter : 2008 : Online-Ressource : 309-327 pages
Mandatory

Making progress simpler? Applying cognitive grammar to tense-aspect teaching in the German EFL classroom.
Niemeier Susanne, Reif Monika
Included in:
Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar
Berlin, New York : Mouton de Gruyter : 2008 : Online-Ressource : 325-355 pages
Mandatory

Schmid Hans-Jörg
Does frequency in text instantiate entrenchment in the cognitive system?
Included in:
Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-Driven Approaches
1. Aufl. : [s.l.] : Walter de Gruyter GmbH Co.KG : 2010 : Online-Ressource : 101-133 pages
Mandatory

Taylor John R.
Some pedagogical implications of cognitive linguistics.
Included in:
Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar
Berlin, New York : Mouton de Gruyter : 2008 : Online-Ressource : 37-65 pages
Mandatory

Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Learning the Semantics of English to, for and at: An Experimental Investigation.
Tyler Andrea, Mueller Charles, Vu Ho
Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics 8 : 2011 :
Mandatory

Making sense of polysemous words.
Verspoor Marjolijn, Wander Lowie
Language Learning 53(3) DOI: 10.1111/1467-9922.00234 : 2003 :
Mandatory

Basic-level salience in second language vocabulary acquisition.
Xia Xiaoyan, Wolf Hans-Georg
Included in:
Fostering language teaching efficiency through cognitive linguistics
Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter Mouton : 2010 : Online-Ressource : 79-97 pages
Mandatory