Cognitive Approaches to Language in Education (CogLingEdBAAL)

Early on the morning of Thursday 18th January, I set off on the train, accompanied by my colleague, Greg Woodin, to attend a conference at the University of Glasgow on the Cognitive Approaches to Language in Education.  It was my first time that far north and I was looking forward to experiencing Scotland and meeting some of its linguistic researchers. The conference offered an insight into how language, specifically cognitive linguistic tools such as 

metaphor, could be observed in the classroom through teacher and student discourse.

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