Strategic Meaning Construal Using Words and Images: Cognitive motivation in second language learning

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Renata Geld, Mateusz-Milan Stanojević. Strategic Meaning Construal Using Words and Images: Cognitive motivation in second language learning. Zagreb : Srednja Europa, 2018.

The book gives an overview of research conducted over the period of ten years and pertaining to factors affecting meaning construal in L2. It focuses on bimodal representation of meaning in the process of strategic meaning construal, that is it describes ways of how learners of L2 (with different educational backgrounds, different L1s, and different perceptual experience) construct meaning and strategically represent it using words and images (drawings).