Applying Cognitive Linguistics in the English Language Classroom

Benjamin White is MATESOL Director and Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows Coordinator at Saint Michael’s College, USA.Natalia Dolgova is Teaching Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes at the George Washington University, USA.

• Introduction: Delivering on the Promise of Cognitive Linguistics, Benjamin White (St. Michael’s College, USA) and Natalia Dolgova (George Washington University, USA)1. A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Teaching Idioms: Helping Second Language Learners Make Sense of Figurative Expressions, Frank Boers (University of Western Ontario, Canada) and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz (University of Extremadura, Spain)2. Teaching Synonyms by Exploring the Roles of Salience and Construal, Dilin Liu (University of Alabama, USA) and Yaochen Deng (Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China)3. Teaching English Collocations by Exploring Their Usage Patterns and Underlying Motivations, Dilin Liu (University of Alabama, USA) and Jie Qin (South China Agricultural University, China)4. Bring It Up: Illustrating Phrasal Verbs for Young Beginners, Serena Gammon (independent scholar)5. A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Teaching L2 Learners the Noncentral Senses of English Prepositions, Charles Mueller (Fuji Women’s University, Japan)6. Embodied Pedagogy: Teaching English Number Marking to Speakers of Classifier Languages, David Wijaya (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)7. A Better Way to Teach English Articles: Framing Nouns, Benjamin White (St. Michael’s College, USA)8. Concept-Based Language Instruction of English Modal Verbs: A Cognitive Linguistics Inspired Approach, Helen Zhao (University of Melbourne, Australia)9. Introducing the Present Perfect through a Cognitive Linguistics Frame, Susanne Niemeier (University of Koblenz, Germany)10. Using Cognitive Linguistic Tools for Teaching English Cohesive Devices of Contrast, Natalia Dolgova (George Washington University, USA)11. Temporal Cohesion and the Teaching of the English Tense-Aspect System: An Applied Cognitive Linguistics Approach, Paolo Infante (Minnesota State University, USA)12. If-Conditionals Made Easy: A Cognitive Approach with the Head-and-Shoulders Diagram, Ivy Wong (Hong Kong Shue Yan University)13. Teaching Modals of Obligation and Necessity to Support English Learner Pragmatic Development, Paolo Infante and Thomas Maldonado (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)ReferencesIndex

‘This outstanding collection brings together clear pedagogical summaries and classroom ready activities. It provides language teachers with an accessible and practical way to apply insights from cognitive linguistics to some of the most challenging areas of English language teaching.’