Construction grammar and foreign/second language teaching

Language Theories and Language Teaching—from Traditional Grammar to Functionalism

linguistic theories have greatly influenced language teaching theories in whatever stage they have been. By reviewing the three main stages of linguistic theories that have existed until now in the history of linguistics, this article has generalized the language teaching theories and the classroom characters resulted

A Neural Theory of Language and Embodied Construction Grammar

This chapter outlines an explicitly neural theory of language and a construction grammar formalism based on this theory. The formalism, ECG, combines deep insights from cognitive linguistics with advanced techniques of neural computation. We illustrate the theory and the formalism with detailed, automatically generated semantic analyses of several related examples. Recent developments in neuros...

Chapter 16. Construction grammar and first language acquisition

evaluating the pedagogical grammar in teaching persian language coursebooks

this paper evaluates pedagogical grammar in the coursebooks of teaching persian non-iranian language learners. the study is based on communicative approach and pedagogical grammar. to evaluate the contents of those books, several checklists and grading scales were investigated and finally, an integrated checklist consisted of 20 questions was provided to be used in this study. in providing this...

Teaching Grammar: Perspectives on Language Learning in Higher Education