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TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction
T2 - cognition, motion events, and SLA
AU - Bylund, Emanuel
AU - Athanasopoulos, Panos
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This opening article introduces the reader to current topics in research on language and thought in monolingual speakers and second language (L2) learners, with particular attention to the domain of motion. The article also delineates the rationale that underlies the special issue at hand, and provides a contextualisation of the individual contributions. It is argued that the centrality of motion in everyday human life, in combination with the vast cross-linguistic variation in motion construal, makes motion events a suitable topic for SLA research, both in terms of ecological validity and learnability challenge. The pedagogical aspects of this line of research are discussed in terms of, first, whether it is desirable to include the acquisition of language-specific thought patterns in curricular goals, and second, whether the knowledge about language specificity in thought can be used in teaching as a means to facilitate learning.
AB - This opening article introduces the reader to current topics in research on language and thought in monolingual speakers and second language (L2) learners, with particular attention to the domain of motion. The article also delineates the rationale that underlies the special issue at hand, and provides a contextualisation of the individual contributions. It is argued that the centrality of motion in everyday human life, in combination with the vast cross-linguistic variation in motion construal, makes motion events a suitable topic for SLA research, both in terms of ecological validity and learnability challenge. The pedagogical aspects of this line of research are discussed in terms of, first, whether it is desirable to include the acquisition of language-specific thought patterns in curricular goals, and second, whether the knowledge about language specificity in thought can be used in teaching as a means to facilitate learning.
KW - cross-linguistic differences
KW - language teaching
KW - linguistic relativity
KW - motion events
KW - second language acquisition
KW - thinking for speaking
KW - Whorf
U2 - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2015.12175.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2015.12175.x
M3 - Editorial
VL - 99
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - Modern Language Journal
JF - Modern Language Journal
SN - 0026-7902
IS - Supplement 1
ER -