Tipo: libro

Temas: teoría sociocultural

Resumen:

Volumen que introdujo la teoría sociocultural de raíz vygotskiana en la investigación sobre segundas lenguas: mediación, andamiaje, zona de desarrollo próximo y lenguaje como herramienta del pensamiento.

Contiene el capítulo de Merrill Swain «The output hypothesis and beyond: mediating acquisition through collaborative dialogue», donde reformula la hipótesis del output en términos de diálogo colaborativo.

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Tipo: artículo

Metodología: propuesta didáctica

Temas: lingüística cognitiva

Resumen:

In this article we argue that figurative language, specifically realized as metaphor, must become an essential aspect of any pedagogical program. The ability to understand and produce appropriate metaphors in a second language can no longer remain on the margins of linguistic proficiency; on the contrary, without such ability a speaker cannot effectively express him or herself or comprehend fully what a native interlocutor may be intending to communicate. That is, to genuinely achieve an advanced level of proficiency it is necessary that a speaker develop a metaphorical capacity in the second language. We begin the article with a discussion of the theory of metaphor proposed by Lakoff and his colleagues. We explain the principal concepts of the theory that we believe to be relevant to second-language pedagogy. We then present some...

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