Theory and Practice from a Cognitive Perspective

ISBN-13: 9789819939206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Renia Lopez-Ozieblo

Opis

This book is intended as a theoretical and practical resource for both new and experienced teachers of a second language. It integrates some of the ideas from cognitive linguistics into existing classroom approaches for teaching English as a second language through a series of lesson plans developed by teachers of English from Mainland China and Hong Kong. The lesson plans provide step-by-step instructions for teachers, including resources and an explanation of the theories underpinning each step. These plans, many of which are integrated into specific English as a foreign language textbook units, encourage teachers to be creative by adding or adapting the material they have in order to engage their students. 

Although the main audience is English teachers, the theoretical principles covered are applicable to teachers of any foreign language and the practical examples, provided in the lesson plans, can be easily modified to teach other languages as well. Similarly, it is not just for teachers working in Chinese contexts but for anyone interested in embodied cognition as a teaching approach. I intend these pages to serve as a companion for teachers to reflect on their existing practices, to provide new ideas and to make them aware of the many factors affecting learning.

Spis treści

Section I - Teaching World English as a second language 

Chapter 1 – Introduction 

Chapter 2 – The English we teach and how we taught it 

Chapter 3 – How we lean – Learning and cognition 

Chapter 4 – How we teach – Usage-based methods 

Section II – A cognitive linguistics teaching approach  

Chapter 5 – Introduction 

Chapter 6 – Embodied learning (and teaching) 

Chapter 7 – Teaching vocabulary with cognition in mind 

Chapter 8 – teaching usage-based grammar: construal 

Section III – Integrating theory and practice 

Chapter 9 – Planning it all 

Chapter 10 – Lesson Plans 

Embodied learning 

Lesson Plan I – Leisure “inactivities”: vocabulary (for adults) 

Lesson Plan II – Telling the story of Nian: narrating a story (for primary 

students) 

Teaching vocabulary with cognition in mind 

Lesson Plan III – Metaphors: vocabulary (for secondary students)) 

Lesson Plan IV – Festivals: vocabulary and the passive voice (for 

secondary students) 

Lesson Plan V – Restaurants: pragmatics (for primary students) 

Teaching usage-based grammar: construal 

Lesson Plan VI – The future: grammar (for secondary students) 

Lesson Plan VII – Health: modals (for secondary students) 

Conclusion 

O autorze

Renia Lopez-Ozieblo is Associate Professor at the Department of English and Communication of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is a researcher and pedagogue in foreign language teaching and learning, in particular interested in and how the embodiment of new concepts can help language learning. Her main lines of research are gestures in language learners and language teaching from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. She directs a number of projects on these topics. She is co-founder of the Hong Kong chapter of the International Society for Gestures Studies and a member of the AILA ReN research group: Gestures in second language acquisition. Dr. Lopez-Ozieblo is also a member of the Research Center for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE) at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.