31.369, Confs: English; Applied Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:49:22
From: Jeanine Treffers-Daller [j.c.treffers-daller at reading.ac.uk]
Subject: Can motion event construal be taught? Pedagogical and experimental approaches to restructuring event cognition patterns

 
Can motion event construal be taught? Pedagogical and experimental approaches to restructuring event cognition patterns 

Date: 23-Apr-2020 - 24-Apr-2020 
Location: University of Reading, United Kingdom 
Contact: Jeanine Treffers-Daller 
Contact Email: j.c.treffers-daller at reading.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: https://research.reading.ac.uk/celm/category/events/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

This workshops focuses on how we can teach L2 learners how to express motion
through space. The workshop will bring together researchers who have studied
how motion event construal is expressed by second language learners or
bilinguals either in naturalistic or experimental settings. It is well known
that there are differences in the ways in which motion is expressed in
different languages.  In English, as in Germanic languages, manner of motion
is often expressed in the main verb (Angela ran into the shop) whereas in
French, and other Romance languages, the main verb generally contains the path
of motion and the manner is optionally expressed in a satellite (Angela entre
le magasin (en courant) “Angela entered the shop running”). Restructuring
these patterns in the process of acquisition of another language with a
different set of patterns is known to be very difficult (Cadierno & Ruiz,
2006; Navarro & Nicoladis, 2005). Further evidence for the complexities
involved in restructuring can be found in the bidirectional crosslinguistic
influence in learners’ and bilinguals’ motion event construals, among children
as well as adults (Aveledo & Athanasopoulos 2015).
 Although the learning difficulties for L2 learners and bilinguals are well
attested, there is little research which focuses on how a new way to talk
about movement through space can be taught. Pedagogical strategies to teach
motion events are virtually non-existent as this aspect of grammar is
generally neglected in the L2 syllabus. Solutions proposed by the research
community include Bylund and Athanasopoulos’ (2015) suggestion that multimodal
input (film clips with action scenes) helps to restructure motion, while Laws,
Attwood and Treffers-Daller (under review) show that an Input Processing
approach (VanPatten & Cadierno, 1993) has a positive effect. We hope that the
workshop will inspire more researchers to develop new studies with innovative
pedagogical approaches towards the teachability of motion and that findings
from these studies can shed new light on the difficulties involved in
restructuring this domain in the process of L2 learning.
 

Keynote speakers:

Panos Athanasopoulos (University of Lancaster): Thinking in multiple
languages: The case of goal-oriented motion events

Teresa Cadierno (University of Southern Denmark): Motion event construal in
second language learners:  From research findings to pedagogical implications
and implementations

Alim Tusun (University of Cambridge): Uyghur-Chinese early successive
bilinguals’ acquisition of caused motion expressions





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