This study explored the effects of learning activities which encouraged positive crosslinguistic influence from L2 Spanish to L1 English grammar in young learners. The learners (N = 82) were studying as their compulsory foreign language at an state primary school UK. As part ten timetabled classes over a period six months, 40 pupils, aged 10–11, engaged self-study involving aspects grammar. inc...

the present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in iranian efl setting. sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on nelson language proficiency test. then, their grammar ability was measured based ...

This paper describes the outcomes of an investigation into the misconceptions and difficulties encountered when learning grammar. The study is based on evidence collected from a class of twelve-year-olds who were engaged upon a workscheme focusing on grammar,and two cohorts of PGCE English students undertaking an intensive grammar course. The analysis suggests that learning metalinguistic knowl...

An exemplar-based computational framework is presented which is compatible with Cognitive Grammar. In an exemplar-based approach, language acquisition is modeled as the incremental, data-oriented storage of experiential patterns, and language performance as the extrapolation of information from those stored patterns on the basis of a language-independent information-theoretic similarity metric....

ABSTRACT In this article, we discuss the notions of linguistic knowledge, creativity, and productivity as they are conceived in Functional Linguistics Construction Grammar, also reviewing, more briefly, these concepts Generative Grammar. sense, revisit posture that different linguists adopt relation to notions, confronting them highlighting their divergences. We relate each specific theoretical...

Application of the principles and tenets cognitive linguistics to translation studies rests on assumption that both them employ same meaning process while working with a text. Procedures implemented translate inaugural address American President Trump have been regarded from point view Construction Grammar. The construction is viewed as main unit representing source linguistic material below le...

this paper attempts to introduce the dimensions of bi/multi-lingualism as a cognitive linguis-tic phenomenon, which can be thought over in sociological, biolinguistic, cultural and psy-cholinguistic perspective. the main research question being asked as how bi/multilingualism is a cognitive phenomenon and what are the bilinguality problems and how do they repre-sents in linguistics? linguist...