Foreign language vocabulary learning: teacher cognition and its relationship with teaching and learning

LÓPEZ BARRIOS, MARIO LUIS; BOLDRINI, SOFÍA

San Juan

Congreso; XLI FAAPI Conference; 2016

Asociación San Juan de Profesores de Inglés

In this presentation we describe a research project whose aim is to find out about EFLteachers? cognition and how it shapes their vocabulary instructional practices. Teachingvocabulary entails the development of learners? lexical competence which ischaracterized as knowledge of the different dimensions of vocabulary and the ability touse lexical items to communicate in a given language (Council of Europe, 2001; Laufer,2005). To these knowledge and competence bases some authors add ―speed of lexicalaccess and strategic competence‖ (Laufer 2005 p. 223) as well as lexical availability(Jiménez Catalán, 2014, p.v).