Brian J Birdsell
Hirosaki University
Brian J. Birdsell is an associate professor at Hirosaki University in northern Japan. He has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham. His main research interests are metaphor, creativity, embodied cognition, and individual differences.
Sessions
Phrasal Verbs: Exploring an Embodied Approach
English phrasal verbs (PVs) are notoriously difficult for foreign language learners. This is often the result of PVs being numerous in quantity and highly polysemous. In this study, I compared the effectiveness of three different instructional approaches for the teaching of PVs; a linguistics, a cognitive, and an embodied approach. In this presentation, I describe the materials, method, and results from this study as well as possible implications for teaching PVs for language instructors.