Language Learning and Cognition

The book presents the theoretical underpinnings and majorapplications of a new Cognitive Language Pedagogy based inCognitive Linguistics and inspired by modernpsycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, psychological anddidactic research. Cognitive linguistics offers acomprehensive approach to modernizing language teaching inmany ways by establishing a paradigm shift rarely seen inlanguage instruction. The book focuses on making accessibleand using those insights for the fields of languageacquisition and language learning, as well as for theirapplication to the practical teaching of foreign languagesand cultures (linguacultures). The book not only buildsbridges between disciplines and between theory and practice,it also shows how the most modern language teachingapproaches (task-based teaching and learning) can beintegrated into an innovative model of a cognitive-basedlanguage pedagogy.Jorg Roche is professor of German as aForeign Language atLudwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany, and at theGerman-Jordanian University in Madaba, Jordan. His researchfocusses on multilingualism, intercultural communication,and the use of digital media in language learning.Ferran Suñer is Professor of German language,linguistics and pedagogy at the Universit'e catholique deLouvain, Belgium. His research focusses ontechnology-enhanced embodied language learning, appliedcognitive linguistics and L2 metaphor acquisition.