Activating Cognitive Strategies in Teaching Heart Idioms
Activating Cognitive Strategies in Teaching Heart Idioms

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at bringing into focus the importance of approaching teaching idioms from the cognitive linguistic perspective. To this end, a contrastive study was conducted, which consisted of applying the traditional method and the cognitive linguistic method to two classes of Romanian students during the process of heart idioms acquisition. Since the conceptual framework is generally common to both languages, activating cognitive strategies (conventional knowledge, con-ceptual metaphor and metonymy) inteaching idiomatic structures proved to be effective by enabling EFL students to understand and use them creatively.

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