Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching
Edited by Paolo Della Putta and Ferran Suñer
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:1 (2023) vi, 330 pp.
Paolo Della Putta
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paolo Della Putta plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
Articles
2023 Fostering the learning of the Russian motion verbs system in Italian-speaking students: An experimental study inspired by embodied approaches to language teaching Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching, Della Putta, Paolo and Ferran Suñer (eds.), pp. 64–85 | Article
This study reports on the differential effectiveness of two pedagogical approaches to teaching L1-Italian students the Russian verbs of motion (глаголы движения, VoMs). The first is a Cognitive Linguistics, embodied approach, where the teacher used techniques such as image schemas, drawings and… read more
2023 Using the body to activate the brain: Research trends and issues Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching, Della Putta, Paolo and Ferran Suñer (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Introduction
2019 Constructions at work in foreign language learners’ mind: A comparison between two sentence-sorting experiments with English and Italian learners Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 219–242 | Article
This article reports empirical evidence of constructional priming effects in L2 learners of English and Italian. The well-known pioneering experiment carried out by Bencini and Goldberg (2000) with L1 speakers of English paved the way for our investigation. We employed the same protocol to… read more