Theory and Practice from a Cognitive Perspective

Renia Lopez-Ozieblo is Associate Professor at the Department of English and Communication of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is a researcher and pedagogue in foreign language teaching and learning, in particular interested in and how the embodiment of new concepts can help language learning. Her main lines of research are gestures in language learners and language teaching from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. She directs a number of projects on these topics. She is co-founder of the Hong Kong chapter of the International Society for Gestures Studies and a member of the AILA ReN research group: Gestures in second language acquisition. Dr. Lopez-Ozieblo is also a member of the Research Center for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE) at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 

Section I - Teaching World English as a second language Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - The English we teach and how we taught it Chapter 3 - How we lean - Learning and cognition Chapter 4 - How we teach - Usage-based methods Section II - A cognitive linguistics teaching approach  Chapter 5 - Introduction Chapter 6 - Embodied learning (and teaching) Chapter 7 - Teaching vocabulary with cognition in mind Chapter 8 - teaching usage-based grammar: construal Section III - Integrating theory and practice Chapter 9 - Planning it all Chapter 10 - Lesson Plans Embodied learning Lesson Plan I - Leisure "inactivities": vocabulary (for adults) Lesson Plan II - Telling the story of Nian: narrating a story (for primary students) Teaching vocabulary with cognition in mind Lesson Plan III - Metaphors: vocabulary (for secondary students)) Lesson Plan IV - Festivals: vocabulary and the passive voice (for secondary students) Lesson Plan V - Restaurants: pragmatics (for primary students) Teaching usage-based grammar: construal Lesson Plan VI - The future: grammar (for secondary students) Lesson Plan VII - Health: modals (for secondary students) Conclusion