@article{oai:hirosaki.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006051, author = {Birdsell, Brian}, journal = {弘前大学 教育推進機構 教養教育開発実践センター}, month = {Mar}, note = {The present article provides an overview of embodied cognition, which theorizes that conceptual knowledge is grounded in sensorimotor, emotional, and bodily states, and how it can be applied to an embodied learning approach for foreign language instruction. Specifically, I consider this from three different perspectives: the use of gestures, especially learners producing gestures while interacting in the L2; raising learners’ awareness of metaphors and how they ground abstract concepts to concrete and physically embodied source concepts; and applying an enacting and multisensory approach to the teaching of English phrasal verbs. In all three of these cases, optimizing the link between language and the body has the potential to enhance foreign language learning, especially for enriching the encoding of vocabulary.}, pages = {15--25}, title = {Embodied Learning for Foreign Language Education}, volume = {4}, year = {2020} }