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Cognitive grammar: marking new paths in foreign language teaching
Author(s) -
Reyes Llopis García
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
verba hispanica/verba hispanica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2350-4250
pISSN - 0353-9660
DOI - 10.4312/vh.19.1.111-127
Subject(s) - grammar , cognitive grammar , linguistics , cognitive linguistics , cognition , computer science , foreign language , emergent grammar , traditional grammar , relational grammar , second language acquisition , psychology , philosophy , neuroscience
This article analyzes the usefulness of cognitive grammar for teaching foreign languages, also because of a growing interest for this discipline in recent years. First the author exposes an overview of cognitive grammar, a language model framed in the cognitive linguistics. Although the concept exists since the late 1980s, its applications for second language acquisition is very recent. In the second part of the article the author explains basics of the cognitive grammar, as well as its most important concepts

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