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Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2020
The purpose of this dictionary and thesaurus of contemporary figurative language and metaphor is to identify all the words and phrases used figuratively and metaphorically in everyday contemporary English and to categorize each word or phrase not only by meaning but also by what cognitive linguists and others have described variously as figure and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language, Phrase Structure
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2019
The purpose of this dictionary and thesaurus of contemporary figurative language and metaphor is to identify all the words and phrases used figuratively and metaphorically in everyday English and to categorize each word or phrase not only by meaning but also by what cognitive linguists and others have described variously as figure and ground,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language
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Nagy, Tünde – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2020
When it comes to teaching vocabulary in foreign language classes words are often taught in isolation, without regard to the context in which they appear. The paper draws attention to the importance of teaching words in context so that the meaning of a word often results from the meaning of a larger construction it is part of. After presenting the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction