Construction Learning as a Complex Adaptive System: Psycholinguistic Evidence from L2 Learners of English 2015 Edition Contributor(s): Baicchi, Annalisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319182684 ISBN-13: 9783319182681 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Language Experience Approach - Education | Educational Psychology - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts |
Dewey: 370.15 |
Series: Springerbriefs in Education |
Physical Information: 0.31" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.47 lbs) 131 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book presents the current state of the art on Construction Grammar models and usage-based language learning research. It reports on three psycholinguistic experiments conducted with the participation of university-level Italian learners of English, whose second language proficiency corresponds to levels B1 and B2 of the 'Common European Framework of Reference for Languages' (CEFR). This empirical research on the role of constructions in the facilitation of language learning contributes to assessing how bilinguals deal with L2 constructions in the light of sentence-sorting, sentence-elicitation, and sentence-completion tasks. Divided into two parts, the book first introduces the main theoretical prerequisites and then reports on the experimental studies. It provides a comprehensive review of the current research in a range of disciplines, including complexity theories, cognitive semantics, construction grammars, usage-based linguistics, and language learning. |