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Giebler, Ralf – Language Awareness, 2012
It has been suggested recently that it may be useful for language teaching practitioners to have some knowledge of cognitive linguistics. Cognitive linguistics (CL) provides tools that may help the language-teaching practitioner to gain insight into the semantic potential of words and communicate the meaning of lexical chunks in greater detail…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Metalinguistics, Semantics, Teaching Methods
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Faber, Pamela – Language Awareness, 1998
Describes an exercise in lexical analysis, involving verbs of sound in English and Spanish. The aim of the exercise is to enable students to discover underlying patterns of meaning that are representative of lexical-conceptual structure. (Author/VL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Dictionaries