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Peer reviewedDanesi, Marcel; D'Alfonso, Aldo – Italica, 1989
Describes a "Vichian" approach (involving linguistic imagination and creativity) to the exploration of basic pedagogical matters in classroom language teaching. The approach is based on principles involving: (1) concrete language knowledge; (2) development from the concrete to the abstract; (3) the role of metaphor in verbal creativity;…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Enrichment, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
