34.2747, Calls: Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-2747. Tue Sep 19 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.2747, Calls: Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy

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Date: 18-Sep-2023
From: Thomas Herbst [conference-CALP4 at fau.de]
Subject: Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy

Full Title: Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy
Short Title: CALP

Date: 18-Mar-2024 - 20-Mar-2024
Location: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Kollegienhaus
(Universitätsstraße 15, Erlangen), Germany
Contact Person: Thomas Herbst
Meeting Email: conference-CALP4 at fau.de
Web Site: https://www.linguistics.phil.fau.eu/calp4/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-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
    - description of constructions
    - 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
before October 31st, 2023.

The conference will be held for 3 days: from March 18th to March 20th,
2024.

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