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Peer reviewedLiu, Jennifer – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1992
Culturally specific compounds in Chinese could be more effectively studied from a cognitive approach, using the underlying idealized cognitive models defined by Lakoff. It is argued that the formation of Chinese compounds are systematically guided by idealized cognitive models and compounds are semantically compositional. (seven references) (LB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Structures, Models, Non Roman Scripts
Perkins, Kyle – 1986
The research reported in this paper is concerned with the ability of students of English as a second language (ESL) to apply cognitive skills in reading. The paper focuses on: (1) a validation study of an experimental test designed to measure Piagetian concrete operations in reading and (2) the effects of the paragraph types (additive or…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Difficulty Level
