34.633, Calls: Constructionist Approaches to Language Learning and Proficiency

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Subject: 34.633, Calls: Constructionist Approaches to Language Learning and Proficiency

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

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

Date: 09-Oct-2023 - 13-Oct-2023
Location: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen,
Germany
Contact Person: Yassine Iabdounane
Meeting Email: conference-CALP4 at fau.de

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition

Call Deadline: 10-Mar-2023

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.

Call for Papers:

While Construction Grammar has been gaining a lot of ground in
theoretical linguistics, it has not yet made its way into teaching
materials and the discussion of methodology in foreign language
teaching to the extent that would seem desirable. Continuing the
tradition established by previous CALP conferences (Brussels 2013,
Basel 2015, and Austin/Texas 2018), CALP4 invites papers on:

– applications of Construction Grammar to foreign language learning;
– new research on the learning of constructions;
– contrastive (i.e. cross-linguistic) research on constructions in
different languages;
– reports of construction-based classroom teaching;
– design of teaching materials and textbooks;
– and similar topics.

Talks should be no longer than 20 minutes (+ 8 minutes for
discussion). Please send us an abstract of 150 – 200 words (excluding
references). Abstracts should be submitted to conference-CALP4 at fau.de
from 17th February to 10th March, 2023.

Invited keynote speakers:
Adele E. Goldberg, Princeton;
Juliana Göschler, Oldenburg &
Anatol Stefanowitsch, Berlin;
Dirk Siepmann, Osnabrück.

The conference will be held for 3 days in the week between October 9th
and October 13th, 2023. [subject to change; definite dates will be
announced soon.]

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Piske
Lehrstuhl für Fremdsprachendidaktik mit Schwerpunkt Didaktik des
Englischen,
Friedrich-Alexander- Universität Erlangen Nürnberg.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Herbst
FAU Senior Professor of English Linguistics,
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

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