Take a Chance on Me: Applied Cognitive Linguistics and SLT

This paper situates the research on cognitive linguistics and language teaching in context by blending the interdisciplinary nature of cognitive linguistics and its application to English as a foreign language. This paper focuses on cognitive linguistics, intelligibility, and interdisciplinary support for applied cognitive linguistics; together they provide a clear picture of the research landscape and the orientation of this complex phenomenon to SL T. 106 learners participated in a posttreatment student self assesment questionnaire (SSAQ) that measured awareness and production of target phonemes in this study. The results show a significant difference among the different instruction groups, i.e, the treatment group that received the figure - ground treatment displayed the most progress for the variables measured. This highlights the value of applying cognitive linguistic concepts to second language teaching.