Teaching idiomatic expressions to learners of EFL through a corpus based on Disney movies
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2009
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AELINCO : Asociación Española de Lingüística del Corpus
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López Rodríguez, Irene y García Moreno, Elena (2009). Teaching Idiomatic Expressions to Learners of EFL through a Corpus Based on Disney Movies. A Survey of Corpus-Based Research. Eds. Pascual Cantos and Aquilino Sánchez, Asociación española de lingüística de corpus, 240-253.
Abstract
El presente artículo intenta ofrecer una estrategia para la enseñanza de expresiones idiomáticas a estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera. Adoptando un enfoque cognitivo, las expresiones idiomáticas están compuestas sobre todo por metáforas de naturaleza conceptual que emanan de las facultades psicomotrices y sensoriales del ser humano y que a menudo están ligadas a imágenes mentales. Este componente visual, a su vez, se pone de relieve por medio de las películas Disney, que con frecuencia mezclan los elementos pictóricos, lingüísticos y sensoriales asociados a las expresiones idiomáticas.
This paper attempts to provide a strategy for the teaching of idioms to learners of EFL through a corpus based on Disney movies. Adopting a cognitive approach, idioms are seen as being motivated by conceptual metaphors which tend to be grounded in our embodied experiences and which very often involve mental imagery. This imagistic component, in turn, is brought to the fore by means of Disney movies which very often commingle the pictorial, linguistic and embodied elements associated to an idiom
This paper attempts to provide a strategy for the teaching of idioms to learners of EFL through a corpus based on Disney movies. Adopting a cognitive approach, idioms are seen as being motivated by conceptual metaphors which tend to be grounded in our embodied experiences and which very often involve mental imagery. This imagistic component, in turn, is brought to the fore by means of Disney movies which very often commingle the pictorial, linguistic and embodied elements associated to an idiom