Reyes Llopis-García is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia, a cognitive linguist, and a teacher trainer. In this conversation, we talk about cognitive linguistics and some ways in which concepts from this field of study can be applied in the language classroom. We also discuss a book that she recently published, Applied Cognitive Linguistics and L2 Instruction in the Cambridge Elements series. 

You can find more information about the book here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/applied-cognitive-linguistics-and-l2-instruction/B6BB969DF51D65418CCDCDFEF0C9C754

In this conversation, we refer to several diagrams from her book. To see these diagrams, you can view the video version of this episode on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu80J0CTDdc