Pictures Meet Words: Learners of English Describing Motion Situations

Autor: Martina Irsara
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Zdroj: Proceedings, Vol 1, Iss 9, p 928 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2504-3900
DOI: 10.3390/proceedings1090928
Popis: This paper analyses the choices of English learners describing the opening scene of Mayer’s (1969) Frog, where are you? which depicts a frog escaping from a jar. A number of results were later tested using drawings that portray a person climbing. Speaking multiple languages might allow adjustment to ways of thinking, when formulating utterances and pointing to different details when describing pictures (Thinking for Speaking Hypothesis, Slobin 1996). The present paper contends that fewer contexts evoke mental images of climbing for speakers of Italian and Ladin who are learning English than for German-speaking English-learners, due to different cross-linguistic influences.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals