Applied Construction Grammar.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (372 pages)
- Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] Series ; v.32 .
- Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] Series .
Intro -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- I. Introduction -- Exploring L2 constructionist approaches -- II. Constructionist approaches to L2 learning and teaching -- Foreign language learning is construction learning - what else? Moving towards Pedagogical Construction Grammar -- A construction-based analysis of German ditransitive phraseologisms for language pedagogy -- Effects of construction-centered instruction on Korean students' learning of English transitive resultative constructions -- Input-dependent L2 acquisition: Causative constructions in English as a foreign and second language -- III. Crosslinguistic applications of constructionist approaches -- Cognitive Pedagogical Grammar and meaning construction in L2 -- Learning the placement caused motion construction in L2 Spanish -- The role of syntax and semantics in constructional priming: Experimental evidence from Italian university learners of English through a sentenceelicitation task -- Do we also need to unlearn constructions? The case of constructional negative transfer from Spanish to Italian and its pedagogical implications -- IV. Constructing a constructicon for L2 learners -- Towards an n-grammar of English -- Frames and constructions in an online learner's dictionary of German -- Constructicography meets (second) language education: On constructions in teaching aids and the usefulness of a Swedish constructicon -- Index.
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Second language acquisition-Psychological aspects.