Theory and Practice from a Cognitive Perspective

Renia Lopez-Ozieblo is Associate Professor at the Department of English and Communication of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is a researcher and pedagogue in foreign language teaching and learning, in particular interested in and how the embodiment of new concepts can help language learning. Her main lines of research are gestures in language learners and language teaching from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. She directs a number of projects on these topics. She is co-founder of the Hong Kong chapter of the International Society for Gestures Studies and a member of the AILA ReN research group: Gestures in second language acquisition. Dr. Lopez-Ozieblo is also a member of the Research Center for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE) at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

• Introduction.- The English we teach and how we taught it.- How we lean – Learning and cognition.- How we teach – Usage-based methods.- A cognitive linguistics teaching approach.- Embodied learning (and teaching).- Teaching vocabulary with cognition in mind.- Teaching usage-based grammar: construal.- Planning it all.- Lesson Plans.