Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Construction Grammar
- Part I The Constructional View of Language
- Part II Methodological and Empirical Foundations of Constructional Research
- Part III Case Studies in Constructional Morphosyntax
- Part IV Multimodality and Construction Grammar
- Part V Constructions in Sociocultural and Typological Variation
- Part VI Constructional Applications
- 21 Construction Grammar and Artificial Intelligence
- 22 Construction Grammar and Language Models
- 23 Construction-Based Language Learning and Teaching
- 24 Construction Grammar and Literature
- Index of Terms
- Index of Languages
- Index of Constructions
- References
23 - Construction-Based Language Learning and Teaching
from Part VI - Constructional Applications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2025
- The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Construction Grammar
- Part I The Constructional View of Language
- Part II Methodological and Empirical Foundations of Constructional Research
- Part III Case Studies in Constructional Morphosyntax
- Part IV Multimodality and Construction Grammar
- Part V Constructions in Sociocultural and Typological Variation
- Part VI Constructional Applications
- 21 Construction Grammar and Artificial Intelligence
- 22 Construction Grammar and Language Models
- 23 Construction-Based Language Learning and Teaching
- 24 Construction Grammar and Literature
- Index of Terms
- Index of Languages
- Index of Constructions
- References
Summary
Construction Grammar offers several assets that foster the learning and teaching of foreign languages. The constructionist approach focuses on well-entrenched form–meaning mappings of different degrees of complexity and abstraction. Thus, if learners have acquired the syntax and semantics of specific foreign constructions, they should be able to understand the semantic motivation behind the syntactic forms and infer the meaning of new instantiations. Moreover – an economical principle in the learning process – these units can be learned as part of a network of semantically related constructions. In learning L2-constructions, construction-based teaching strategies can be implemented, that is, the scaffolding strategy, structural priming and embodied construction practice. The scaffolding strategy elaborates on the semantic link between constructions of different degrees of syntactic complexity and on the family resemblance concept. Structural priming focuses on the creative repetition of similar structures with different slot-fillers. Finally, embodied practice applies to constructions referring to concrete events which can be represented with pictures or objects or can be enacted.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar , pp. 596 - 622Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025