Metaphor awareness and vocabulary retention

By F. Boers. 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

Does pictorial elucidation foster recollection of idioms? (2009, background): “…of introducing insights from cognitive semantics (e.g. Kövecses, 1986; Johnson, 1987; Lakoff, 1987; Gibbs, 1994) to language pedagogy have often featured figurative idioms as the target for learning (e.g. Kövecses and Szabó, 1996; Boers, 2000; Csábi, 2004; Beréndi et al., 2008; Skoufaki, 2008).”
Teaching Formulaic Sequences: The Same as or Different From Teaching Single Words? (2012, background): “Likewise, having students consider the underlying categorical orientation of figurative items (e.g., more is up, less is down) helps them learn these items (e.g., blow up = inflate; Boers, 2000).”
Review article: Instructed second language vocabulary learning (2008, background): “Boers et al. (2006) found that learners who were exposed to considerable listening and reading and made aware of the phrasal vocabulary in that input were later judged to be more orally proficient than learners who received the same input but were taught with a traditional grammar–lexis dichotomy. A”
Learning Phrasal Verbs Through Conceptual Metaphors: A Case of Japanese EFL Learners (2010, background): “Phrasal verbs are perennial sources of confusion, and they constitute major obstacles on the path to proficiency in English (Boers, 2000b; Kurtyka, 2001; Littlemore & Low, 2006), in spite of the fact that they are the most frequently occurring idiomatic strings of language in both spoken and…”
REMEMBERING FIGURATIVE IDIOMS BY HYPOTHESIZING ABOUT THEIR ORIGIN (2001, background): “36 Prospect Vol. 16, No. 3 December 2001 The results of several controlled learning experiments have shown that raising learners’ awareness of the metaphoric nature of idioms can indeed have a significant beneficial effect on vocabulary retention (Boers 2000a, 2000b).”
Presenting figurative idioms with a touch of etymology: more than mere mnemonics? (2007, background): “Our optimism is fuelled by studies which have yielded encouraging results with regard to learners’ ability to interpret figurative senses of polysemous words on the basis of knowledge of the literal senses of these words (e.g. Boers, 2000b; Csábi, 2004; Verspoor and Lowie, 2003).”
Cognitive Linguistic approaches to teaching vocabulary: Assessment and integration (2011, background): “For example, the comparison group would in some studies (e.g. Boers 2000b, study 2) receive target vocabulary in the format of one longish list, whereas the same input would be segmented in the CL treatment to reflect metaphor categories.”