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Herrera-Soler, Honesto and Michael V. White. 2000. Cognitive linguistics and the language learning process: A case from economics. Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense 8 : 55–78. 24 pp.

Abstract

This paper deals with the contribution of cognitive linguistics to the learning process. If conceptual metaphor pervades the way we think, speak, or act, we consider that it should also have some influence on the way we learn. An empirical study was carried out with sophomore students at the Faculty of Economics, UCM, to confirm if conceptual metaphor had some relevance in the process of storing and retrieving information at the level of surface metaphor. Our findings indicate that our students recall more lexical items and that their performance in a test is improved if the teaching process is informed by a cognitive approach highlighting structural relations rather than a traditional approach where the teacher would merely supply comments ad hoc on the individual items and on the text. (LLBA 2002, vol. 36, n. 4)