Applying Cognitive Linguistics in the English Language Classroom
Will be published approx. on 3. September 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-350-49872-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book promotes greater interest in cognitive linguistics (CL) among English language teaching (ELT) practitioners, while offering researchers a more direct line toward shaping pedagogy. The book presents a collection of CL-informed ready-to-use pedagogical summaries and activities that teachers without background knowledge in CL can take directly to their classrooms. Importantly, the book targets traditionally challenging areas of English instruction by focusing on vocabulary, grammar, and aspects of discourse and pragmatics.
Each chapter tackles a different topic of the English language and includes the following sections: 1) introduction of the challenge(s) with the said English language topic, 2) explanation of the CL approach and how it can mitigate the observed challenge(s), 3) practically-oriented description of the CL-inspired teaching activities, positioned within a specific pedagogical context but easily transferable to other contexts. All chapters include insights that are highly practical and easily implemented in different contexts of ELT. The ultimate goal of the volume is to motivate teachers to try new pedagogical tools and to influence English language pedagogy through the research-documented powers of applied cognitive linguistics.
Each chapter tackles a different topic of the English language and includes the following sections: 1) introduction of the challenge(s) with the said English language topic, 2) explanation of the CL approach and how it can mitigate the observed challenge(s), 3) practically-oriented description of the CL-inspired teaching activities, positioned within a specific pedagogical context but easily transferable to other contexts. All chapters include insights that are highly practical and easily implemented in different contexts of ELT. The ultimate goal of the volume is to motivate teachers to try new pedagogical tools and to influence English language pedagogy through the research-documented powers of applied cognitive linguistics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
20 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-49872-3 (9781350498723)
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Persons
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.
Natalia Dolgova is Teaching Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes at the George Washington University, USA.
Content
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-Piriz (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)
References
Index
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-Piriz (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)
References
Index