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D-Index
55
Citations
11268
World Ranking
2039
National Ranking
113

Overview

Frank Boers is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and conducts research primarily in the fields of Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Their scholarly work spans several subfields including Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The research topics Frank Boers focuses on include:

  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Lexicography and Language Studies

Boers has contributed papers to a variety of academic venues with notable frequency in Frontiers in Neuroscience, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Teaching, Language Teaching Research, and the Modern Language Journal.

Some recent publications include:

  • "Glossing and vocabulary learning," 2021, Language Teaching
  • "A CALL FOR CAUTIOUS INTERPRETATION OF META-ANALYTIC REVIEWS," 2020, Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Other papers attributed to their affiliation feature topics relevant to related fields, though with different primary authors.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Frank Boers include:

  • N. Jon Shah
  • Karl-Josef Langen
  • Jürgen Dammers
  • Kayvan Shakoury
  • Jörg Mauler

Boers's work shows interdisciplinary integration, combining language acquisition research with cognitive neuroscience methodologies. This is evidenced by publications placed in domains ranging from language teaching to neuroscience journals.

Best Publications

  • Metaphor awareness and vocabulary retention

    Frank Boers

  • Formulaic sequences and perceived oral proficiency: putting a Lexical Approach to the test

    Frank Boers;June Eyckmans;Jenny Kappel;Hélène Stengers

  • An eye for words: Gauging the role of attention in incidental L2 vocabulary acquisition by means of eye-tracking

    Aline Godfroid;Frank Boers;Alex Housen

  • Enhancing Metaphoric Awareness in Specialised Reading.

    Frank Boers

  • Optimizing a Lexical Approach to Instructed Second Language Acquisition

    Frank Boers;Seth Lindstromberg

  • Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology

    Frank Boers;Seth Lindstromberg

  • Presenting figurative idioms with a touch of etymology: more than mere mnemonics?:

    Frank Boers;June Eyckmans;Hélène Stengers

  • Measuring the impact of cross-cultural differences on learners' comprehension of imageable idioms

    Frank Boers;Murielle Demecheleer

  • A cognitive semantic approach to teaching prepositions

    Frank Boers;Murielle Demecheleer

  • Applied Linguistics Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Variation in Conceptual Metaphor

    Frank Boers

  • When a bodily source domain becomes prominent: The joy of counting metaphors in the socio-economic domain

    Frank Boers

  • Gauging the effects of exercises on verb–noun collocations

    Frank Boers;Murielle Demecheleer;Averil Coxhead;Stuart Webb

  • Experimental and Intervention Studies on Formulaic Sequences in a Second Language

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  • 4. Etymological elaboration as a strategy for learning idioms

    Frank Boers;Murielle Demecheleer;June Eyckmans

  • How cognitive linguistics can foster effective vocabulary teaching

    Frank Boers;Seth Lindstromberg

  • A few metaphorical models in (western) economic discourse

    Frank Boers;Murielle Demecheleer

  • REMEMBERING FIGURATIVE IDIOMS BY HYPOTHESIZING ABOUT THEIR ORIGIN

    Frank Boers

  • The Mnemonic Effect of Noticing Alliteration in Lexical Chunks

    Seth Lindstromberg;Frank Boers

  • Modality-Specific Perceptual Expectations Selectively Modulate Baseline Activity in Auditory, Somatosensory, and Visual Cortices

    Robert Langner;Robert Langner;Thilo Kellermann;Frank Boers;Walter Sturm

  • Finding ways to make phrase-learning feasible: The mnemonic effect of alliteration

    Frank Boers;Seth Lindstromberg

  • Spatial prepositions and metaphor: A cognitive semantic journey along the up-down and the front-back dimensions

    Frank Boers

  • Repeating a Monologue Under Increasing Time Pressure: Effects on Fluency, Complexity, and Accuracy

    Chau Thai;Frank Boers

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart Webb
Stuart Webb University of Western Ontario
Robert Verpoorte
Robert Verpoorte Leiden University
Salvatore Attardo
Salvatore Attardo Texas A&M University – Commerce
Hossein Nassaji
Hossein Nassaji University of Victoria

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