Applied Cognitive Linguistics Blockseminar Ying Hsueh Hu Applications and Implications of CL in SLA Cross cultural and Social Studies

This is a course to raise the awareness of a discipline that has come to be known as -Cognitive Linguistics” (CL) and in what way this discipline has influenced investigations into semantics, syntax and vocabulary. Thanks to this perspective, the whole issue of language acquisition has been brought into a new light. Therefore, the aim of the course is to explore research in CL and first/second language learning and how this knowledge may be applied to language teaching. The course will consist of a core component on the major tenets of CL, such as prototypes, basic level concepts, metaphors, metonymies, image schemas and motion event structures through the investigation of several research studies on the nature of language and language development. Also, the course will provide opportunities to examine and discuss the empirical evidence on the applications of these CL principles to second/foreign language teaching and learning. Students will be given hands-on-training to conduct their own analyses at the end of each session and design teaching materials for their current or future classroom as a small-scale group project to be presented on the final day of the course. The language teaching areas that will be examined include, but are not limited to, English basic level words, propositions, lexical chunks (e.g., phrasal verbs and idioms), modal verbs, syntax for motion events, and tenses/aspects. Although the course focuses on the pedagogical application of CL, applications to cross-cultural learning and socio as well as political discourse analysis will also be briefly introduced. Deutsche und Englische Linguistik, Master of Arts LingA2, FAL 7 Dozentin: Ying-hsueh Hu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Registration – StudIP 01.09.2016-30.09.2016 / Size restriction – 25 / Further Information – ulrike.altendorf@engsem.~ Universität Hannover WiSe 2016/17 Englisch, Ergänzungsstudiengang 3. Fach LA Gym. Prof. Dr. phil. Altendorf Ulrike phil