![]() This is exemplified with the use of German posture and placement verbs in the caused motion construction and the corresponding intransitive locative construction.īut having learned a vast number of constructional templates of a language does not automatically imply that learners can produce L2-constructions and their instantiations in a creative way. Learners can be asked to extend the use of new lexical units as slot-fillers into constructional patterns. To be proficient in a foreign language also means to use new words in constructions. ![]() With the postulate of meaningful schematic templates, Construction Grammar (CxG) has a number of assets for foreign language teaching (FLT) and learning (FLL), it allows among others to establish a structured inventory of abstract constructions with prototypical exemplars and inheritance links between the constructions’ instantiations. Teaching materials often propose a lexical approach with an unstructured set of constructed examples. ![]() Difficulties in the learning process of a foreign language result from the conceptual and constructional differences between expressions in the native and foreign language. ![]() In recent years, foreign language pedagogy has recognized the need to focus (i) on larger meaningful sequences of words ( Nattinger & DeCarrico, 1992 Wray, 2002 Ellis & Cadierno, 2009 Gonzalez Rey, 2013 ) and (ii) further on communicative goals ( Nunan, 1991 Widdowson, 1992 Savignon, 2000 ). ![]()
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