- Author
- Holme, Randall
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY
- ISBN
- 1403915857
- Table of Contents
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List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
ch. 1 The Study of Metaphor
ch. 2 Using Figurative Language
ch. 3 Teaching the Language and Structure of Metaphor
ch. 4 Allegory and Analogy: Teaching with Extended Metaphors
ch. 5 Teaching Lexis through Metaphor
ch. 6 Metaphor and the Teaching of Grammar
ch. 7 The Metaphor of Learning
ch. 8 Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
This book explores how insights into figurative language can reshape what teachers do in the classroom. It reveals why some well-known methods work while others do not. Rejecting prescriptive pedagogical formulae, it recounts classroom episodes that help teachers rethink their own practice. Finally, the book sets out how we can use these episodes to reappraise language learning theory in a way that treats it as consonant with the cognitive nature of language. (From the Publisher)