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Dear 'cognitive' friends' :wink: Thank you for your extremely interesting replies. I promise to answer soon but I've got to tell you it's not easy. The reason is I'm on my maternity leave now and I'm still feeding my baby. My daughter has had a great appetite for the last few days and I couldn't fin...

Thanks so much for your help, surrealia All the best for the next week!

I'm looking for some games & activities in training creative thinking, for example: finishing off a sentence in an original way, personification (imagine you are a shoe) and the like.

I am looking for contact with teachers of English and researchers who are interested in the issue of using cognitive linguistics (e.g. metaphors) and contrastive linguistics in teaching English as a Second / Foreign Language. Also, read my earlier post about advance organizers.

Dear Lorikeet! You will be surprised to learn that advance organizers -though their name sounds unfamiliar- are in fact very often used in lessons! These are simply introductions to the presented material. For instance, if you want to teach your students about the WW2, you should use an advance orga...

Hello there! I am currently doing some research on the application of advance organizers in teaching English to Polish students. I have collected lots of internet materials on advance organizers and David Ausubel (who introduced them to teaching). In these materials a lot is written about how to use...