Table of contents : Acknowledgements Introduction References Contents Cognitive Assumptions as the Foundations of Teaching Effects of Non-native Versus Native Teaching Scenarios on L2 Student Emotions 1 Introduction 1.1 Shame 1.2 Fear 1.3 Anxiety 1.4 Anger 1.5 Depression 1.6 Pride 2 Method 2.1 Overview and Aims 2.2 Participants 2.3 Questionnaire 3 Results 4 Summary of Results 5 Discussion and Conclusions References Imagery as a Tool for Describing the Uses of French Tenses 1 Introduction 2 Cognitive Foundations of the Global Visualization Grammar 3 The Case of Global and Visualized Teaching of Tenses 4 Concluding Remarks References The Cognitive Grammar-Based Pedagogical Grammar—Tenses as Coherent Categories 1 Introduction 2 The Cognitive Grammar Background 3 An Application of CG to Language Pedagogy 4 A Comparison of Construals Encoded in Different Tenses 4.1 The Past Uses of the Constructions 4.2 The Present Uses of the Constructions 5 Conclusions References Cognitive Theories in Pedagogical Application The Infinitive or the Gerund? Cognitive Linguistics in Teaching English Post-verbal Complementation 1 Introduction 2 A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Grammar and Language Acquisition 3 A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to English Gerundive and To-Infinitival Complements 4 Cognitive Linguistics Applied: The English To-Infinitive and the Gerund in the L2 Classroom 4.1 The To-Infinitive 4.2 The Gerund 5 Experimental Study: Participants, Design and Results 6 Conclusion and Prospects for Future Research References The Cognitive Grammar View of Lexical Polysemy and Its Application in Foreign Language Pedagogy 1 Introduction 2 The Cognitive Grammar Approach to Polysemy 3 Application in the Classroom 3.1 A Presentation of the Technique 3.2 Some Case Studies 4 The Advantages of the Technique References A Cognitive Approach to Teaching Italian Prepositions to Polish Students 1 Introduction 2 The Theoretical Foundations 3 Prepositions in Cognitive Linguistics 4 Prepositions and Space Perception 5 Prepositions and Conceptualizations of Time 6 Prepositions and Abstract Concepts 7 A Proposal for Exercises on Prepositions 8 Conclusions References The LANGUAGE IS MUSIC Metaphor as a Didactic Tool in Descriptive Phonetics and Phonology Classroom 1 Introduction 2 The Conceptual Metaphor Theory 3 The Didactic Potential of CMT 4 The LANGUAGE IS MUSIC Metaphor in the Descriptive Phonetics and Phonology Classroom 4.1 The SPEECH ORGANS ARE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Metaphor 4.2 The PHONEMES ARE MUSICAL NOTES Metaphor 4.3 The PHONOTACTICS IS HARMONY OF LANGUAGE Metaphor 4.4 The SYLLABLES ARE MUSICAL CORDS Metaphor 4.5 The LANGUAGE STRESS IS MUSICAL BEAT Metaphor 4.6 The INTONATION IS MELODIC LINE Metaphor 5 LANGUAGE IS MUSIC: A Practical Study Analysis 6 Limitations of the Approach 7 Conclusions References