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Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Fostering language teaching efficiency through cognitivelinguistics: IntroductionFrank Boers, Antoon De Rycker and Sabine De Knop

PartI
The importance of usage-based language acquisition, but whyit may not suffice in contexts of second language learning

Language in the mind
John R.Taylor

Phrasal verbs in EFL course books
RafaelAlejo Gonzalez, Ana Piquer Pfriz and GuadalupeReveriego Sierra

Basic-level salience in second languagevocabulary acquisitionXiaoyan Xia and Hans-Georg Wolf

Does 'chunking'foster chunk-uptake?Helene Stengers, Frank Boers, Alex Housen and June Eyckmans

PartⅡ
How Cognitive Linguistics can inform decisions aboutwhat to teach

Having many meanings: A corpus study of Spanish EFLwriters' construals with haveJoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer and Caroline Bunce

Seven events in three languages: Culture-specificconceptualizations and their implications for FLTZhuo Jing-Schmidt

Canonicity and variation in idiomatic expressions:Evidence from business press headlinesHonesto Herrera and Michael White

The use of metaphor and metonymy in academic andprofessional discourse and their challenges for learnersand teachers of English
Jeannette Littlemore, Phyllis Chen, Polly Liyen Tang,Almut Koester and John Barnden

Argument constructions and language processing: Evidencefrom a priming experiment and pedagogical implicationsDavid Eddington and Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza
Choosing motivated chunks for teachingFrank Boers, Julie Deconinck and Seth Lindstromberg

Part Ⅲ
How Cognitive Linguisics can inform decisions abouthow to teach

Fostering the acquisition of English prepositions byJapanese learners with networks and prototypesKanako Cho

A prototype approach to auxiliary selection in theItalian passato prossimoPhillip Hamrick and Salvatore Attardo

Obstacles to CM-guided L2 idiom interpretation
Ying-Hsueh Hu and Yu-Ying Fong

Corpus-informed integration of metaphor in materialsfor the business English classroomConstanze Juchem-Grundmann and Tina Krennmayr

Improving word learn-ability with lexicaldecomposition strategiesChristina Sanchez-Stockhammer

Cognitive theory as a tool for teaching second languagepronunciationHelen Fraser

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