The Figure / Ground Gestalt and Language Teaching Methodology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Cognitive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Pedagogy 1
4. Expressing Motion Events in a Second Language: a Cognitive Typological Perspective 13
5. Construal, Convention, and Constructions in L2 Speech 51
6. Input Versus Transfer? - The Role of Frequency and Similarity in the Acquisition of L2 Prepositions 77
7. Linguistic and Cultural Relativity - Reconsidered for the Foreign Language Classroom 95
8. The Figure / Ground Gestalt and Language Teaching Methodology 119
9. "Cultural Scripts": a New Medium for Ethnopragmatic Instruction 143
10. Grammatical Instruction in the Natural Approach: a Cognitive Grammar View 165
11. Teaching Temporal Connectors and their Prototypical Non-temporal Extensions 195
12. Expanding Learners' Vocabulary Through Metaphor Awareness: What Expansion, What Learners, What Vocabulary? 211
13. A Cognitive Linguistic View of Polysemy in English and its Implications for Teaching 233
14. Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Pedagogical Grammar: The Case of Over 257
15. Backmatter 281