34.913, Confs: Applied Linguistics: Constructionist Approaches to Language Learning and Proficiency/Germany

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Subject: 34.913, Confs: Applied Linguistics: Constructionist Approaches to Language Learning and Proficiency/Germany

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From: Yassine Iabdounane [conference-CALP4 at fau.de]
Subject: Applied Linguistics: Constructionist Approaches to Language Learning and Proficiency/Germany


Constructionist Approaches to Language Learning and Proficiency
Short Title: CALP 4

Date: 11-Oct-2023 - 13-Oct-2023
Location: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen,
Germany
Contact: Yassine Iabdounane
Contact Email: conference-CALP4 at fau.de
Meeting URL: https://www.linguistics.phil.fau.eu/calp/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Meeting Description:

Let’s face it – grammar has a bad reputation.…It doesn’t have to be
that way. Grammar is actually quite engaging when properly understood.
Ronald Langacker. 2008: 1. Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford: OUP.

CALP 4 is an applied linguistics conference that addresses all
research issues related to first, second and foreign language learning
and teaching. The overall framework of the conference is provided by
what has become known as the usage-based approach, and in particular
Construction Grammar models.

Construction Grammar is a relatively recent theory of language that
sees language as a network of learned form-meaning pairings – the
constructions. Constructions in this sense comprise a wide range of
linguistic units such as individual words, collocations, expressions
such as THE XER THE YER or THE TWO/THREE/etc. OF THEM/YOU/US or rather
abstract constructions such as the DITRANSITIVE CONSTRUCTION (subject
verb object object) or different constructions to refer to events in
the future in English (such as the MODAL WILL-CONSTRUCTION and the
BE-GOING-TO-V construction).

The constructionist approach to language thus stands in sharp contrast
to generative theory as instigated by Noam Chomsky. Most importantly,
perhaps, Construction Grammar does not make any speculative
assumptions about supposedly inborn qualities of the human mind (such
as Universal Grammar), but it assumes that constructions are learnt.

As a result, the model of Construction Grammar, which in some respects
continues the tradition of language descriptions before Chomsky, is
particularly suited to increase our understanding of how language
learning takes place. In fact, the analysis of language learning
processes has been a central element of a vast body of empirical
research carried out in this framework over the last 30 years or so.

The conference will be held for 3 days from October 11 to October 13,
2023. The program will be uploaded once all the abstracts have been
evaluated.

Workshop:
A special workshop for language teachers will be arranged by Prof.
Dirk Siepmann and Prof. Thorsten Piske.



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