Elizabeth M. Kissling
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elizabeth M. Kissling is involved.
Articles
2024 More evidence that a usage-based, applied cognitive linguistics approach is effective for teaching the Spanish prepositions por and para Pedagogical Linguistics 5:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
While applying cognitive linguistics (CL) to language teaching has been proven effective for teaching polysemous prepositions in English, it has demonstrated less success with the difficult-to-acquire Spanish prepositions por and para. This points to the need for more practical research… read more
2023 Bottom’s up for listening: The effect of pronunciation instruction on L2 listening comprehension Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 9:3, pp. 323–331 | Article
This report explains the teaching decisions made in Kissling (2018). The original study measured the effect of explicit pronunciation instruction (PI) on the listening comprehension of beginning L2 Spanish learners (n = 116), as measured via accuracy on a dictation task (intelligibility) and… read more