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Karen Chung
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Oct 07, 2009 06:44 PDT
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講 者：Dr. Sophia Skoufaki
(Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University)
講 題：Guessing at the meaning of unknown L2 idioms: applied cognitive
linguistic perspectives
時 間：98年10月30日（星期五） 中午12:15-14:00
地 點：國立政治大學季陶樓340309 口譯教室
主辦單位：國立政治大學發展國際一流大學及頂尖研究中心計畫 /
國立政治大學英國語文學系
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Abstract:
Since its initial proposal as a vocabulary learning method, inferring
the meaning of unknown second-language (L2) vocabulary from context has
been modified many times. In Applied Cognitive Linguistics, this method
has been mainly seen as helping L2 learners memorise the form and
meaning of figurative vocabulary. In the sub-area of L2 idiom
instruction, Cognitive Linguistic theory has been combined with the
meaning inference method in two ways. The first is the proposal to ask
learners to infer the meaning of L2 idioms which are considered to be
underlain by conceptual metaphors and/or metonymies. The second is the
proposal to ask learners to infer the meanings of L2 idioms while
offering them conceptual metaphoric or metonymic clues about these
meanings. However, these proposals have not yet received a thorough
evaluation. This chapter aims to evaluate the two aforementioned
proposals by reviewing experiments which test their effectiveness.
About Dr. Skoufaki:
Sophia Skoufaki is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Graduate
Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University. Her current
research uses corpus data to examine L2 written discourse, L2 oral
fluency, and the role of lexical performance in second-language
examination scoring.
Her other main research interests are L2 figurative language
processing and learning from a psycholinguistic perspective. Her PhD
thesis, ‘Investigating L2 idiom instruction methods,’ at the University
of Cambridge, and most of her publications examine the instruction and
learning of second-language idioms.
Before coming to Taipei, she used to work as a linguistics lecturer
at the University of Greenwich and the Open University in the UK.
Notes:
After the talk, there will be presentations by graduate students. Those
who are interested could stay for discussion.
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