scholarly journals Editorial: Cognitive Linguistics in Chinese Teaching and Learning

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Chinese Teaching

Application of Radial Categories to the Second Language Learning of Chinese Learners

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 972
Author(s):  
Xiaqing Li
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Chinese Learners ◽  
Grammar Rules ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

As a relatively new discipline which raised in the 20th century Cognitive linguistics has gradually become the mainstream in the development of recent decades. In cognitive linguistics some major theories related with language teaching and learning are construal, categorization, encyclopedic knowledge, symbol, metaphor, and metonymy. In this paper being based on the theory of radial categories the author turns attention to second language learning to explore implications of performance of vocabulary, morphemes, grammar rules, phonology, and intonation in radial categories in the second language learning.

scholarly journals Views and Attitudes of Intercultural Awareness in Chinese Teaching and Learning in Shanxi Provincial Universities Context

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junqing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Overseas Students ◽  
Positive Learning Environment ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Chinese Teaching

The perceptions of academic staffs and overseas students to the significance of intercultural awareness in Chinese teaching/learning as foreign language were studied to provide suggestions for enhancing their intercultural communication competence in the context of Shanxi Provincial universities. The participants of 273 students and 52 staffs took part in the questionnaire and 25 of them accepted semi-structured interview. The combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis indicated a significant correlation between intercultural experience, length of Chinese teaching/learning and the enthusiasm in target language involved programs, regardless of age or gender. The attitudes to cultural diversity, misunderstanding even conflicts unavoidably existed in these universities influenced target language and culture mastery. This study suggested the promotion of intercultural awareness among staffs as well as students was important to help international students take advantage of opportunities available at campus or beyond to improve their effective intercultural communication. And much more intercultural strategies, including more positive learning environment, appropriated curriculum, further exploration, concentrated on improving target language proficiency and extending cultural experience in Chinese classes should be implemented to motivate students’ intercultural enthusiasm and competence.

scholarly journals A Route to the Teaching of Polysemous Lexicon: Benefits from Cognitive Linguistics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Veliz
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Polysemous Words ◽  
Made In

This paper discusses some implications and applications of the field of Cognitive linguistics (CL) to the teaching of English as a second, foreign or additional language (ESL, EFL or EAL). Some of the areas to which CL has immensely contributed are the teaching and learning of grammar, including modality and prepositions (e.g. Langacker, 1991; Langacker, 2008), the teaching and learning of lexis, especially metaphorically-used words and expressions (e.g. Boers, 2004; Deignan, Gabrys, & Solska, 1997; Kalyuga & Kalyuga, 2008; Kövecses, 1996), and the teaching and development of literacy skills, in particular the skills to better understand texts with metaphors embedded (e.g. Boers, 2000). A discussion of all these areas is certainly beyond the scope of this paper. The area to which some attention is drawn in this article is that of teaching metaphorical lexis, with a particular focus on the teaching of polysemous words. General suggestions and teaching recommendations are made in an attempt to bring this field closer to language practitioners. 

scholarly journals Developing Specific Chinese Teaching Material for Indonesia Based on a Comparation between Chinese and English Teaching Materials

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Kelly Rosalin
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Chinese Teaching ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Chinese And English

Teaching material is a foundation of language learning. It is also a very important tool in teaching and learning process. Especially for students who learnt in non-Chinese environment, during the learning process, they can only rely on teachers and teaching materials. Article was based on previous research about teaching methods. Article used two teaching materials that have Indonesian language translation Contemporary Chinese and Chuji Biaozhun Huayu. Besides, it compared the content and designed to analyze the similarities and differences of these teaching materials. Through the analysis, research gives solution in teaching materials design.

The embodied teaching of complex verbal constructions with German placement verbs and spatial prepositions

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-161
Author(s):  
Sabine De Knop
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Pedagogy ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
New Words ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Lexical Approach

Abstract In recent years, foreign language pedagogy has recognized the need to focus (i) on larger meaningful sequences of words (Nattinger & DeCarrico, 1992; Wray, 2002; Ellis & Cadierno, 2009; Gonzalez Rey, 2013) and (ii) further on communicative goals (Nunan, 1991; Widdowson, 1992; Savignon, 2000). Difficulties in the learning process of a foreign language result from the conceptual and constructional differences between expressions in the native and foreign language. Teaching materials often propose a lexical approach with an unstructured set of constructed examples. With the postulate of meaningful schematic templates, Construction Grammar (CxG) has a number of assets for foreign language teaching (FLT) and learning (FLL), it allows among others to establish a structured inventory of abstract constructions with prototypical exemplars and inheritance links between the constructions’ instantiations. To be proficient in a foreign language also means to use new words in constructions. Learners can be asked to extend the use of new lexical units as slot-fillers into constructional patterns. This is exemplified with the use of German posture and placement verbs in the caused motion construction and the corresponding intransitive locative construction. But having learned a vast number of constructional templates of a language does not automatically imply that learners can produce L2-constructions and their instantiations in a creative way. Therefore, CxG must be enriched with further insights from Cognitive Linguistics which claims that conceptual categories and their linguistic expressions are the result of embodied processes (Lakoff, 1987). This chapter makes some suggestions for interactive activities which can foster ‘embodied teaching and learning’.

scholarly journals Chinese Language Teaching in Thailand

MANUSYA ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prapin Manomaiviboon
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Chinese Language Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Chinese Language Teaching ◽  
Chinese Teaching

This article is about the present day teaching and learning of Chinese in Thailand, particularly over the past seven to eight years. However, before dealing with the state of current teaching and learning, this article will present a concise historical version of Chinese language education in Thailand, so that readers will get a perspective and will be aware of diverse factors affecting Chinese teaching in the country.

scholarly journals The Characteristics of Bilingualism Inspire Chinese Teaching and Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Guiling Ren
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Chinese Education ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Chinese Teaching

<p>In today's society, the technological and cultural exchanges between countries are increasingly frequent. In this situation, the communication between languages is inevitable, and the resulting bilingual or multilingual phenomenon will have an impact on the independent language of any nation. Chinese is no exception. It is of certain significance to study the characteristics of using bilingualism or multilingualism and to reform Chinese education and learning according to its characteristics.</p>

Teaching Conceptual Metaphors to EFL Learners in the European Space of Higher Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-114
Author(s):  
Regina Gutiérrez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Second Language Teaching ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Language Context

AbstractThe CEFR encourages a more effective international communication. Given that effective communication in a L2 involves the ability to use metaphors, this figure becomes of prime importance to the teaching of languages. The present study applies a methodology for teaching English metaphors and idioms following the tenets of Cognitive Linguistics (CL). It argues the importance of “metaphoric competence”, and, by a conceptual metaphor awareness method, it advocates the usefulness of teaching metaphors and idioms and its explicit inclusion in a language syllabus aimed at increasing proficiency in L2. This conceptual basis for language is almost entirely unavailable to L2 learners in course books and reference materials. This paper reviews the scope of metaphor and metaphoric competence in the context of second-language teaching and learning, and provides some tips on how to teach metaphors and idioms effectively in a foreign language context. By analizing the systematicity and experiential basis of the expressions subject of study, it offers some pedagogical suggestions and teaching material that can facilitate the acquisition of idiomatic expressions by raising awareness of the conceptual metaphors that underlie them.

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