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 in which Paolo Della Putta is involved.
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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
The basic variety in learners of closely related languages: A case study of young Spanish-speaking migrants learning Italian Language, Interaction and Acquisition: Online-First Articles | Article
Longitudinal studies conducted within the ESF project in the 1980s revealed recurrent interlanguage stages developed by learners of different L2s and with different L1s, where similar morphological categories and syntactic properties emerged gradually and consistently, regardless of learners’… read more