Applying Cognitive Linguistics in the English Language Classroom

Shows language teachers how critical insights from cognitive linguistics research can help them design and implement effective pedagogical activities

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 chall