Abstract
The present study introduces a novel instructional approach to teaching a Chinese construction to college students in a foreign language classroom. Based on the framework of the construction-grammar approach to language acquisition, this study tested the effect of construction-based teaching, which integrates formal and semantic aspects of language with contextually meaningful visual scenes, in Korean-speaking Chinese learners’ acquisition of the Chinese Ba construction. Two groups of Chinese learners, who were enrolled in second-semester college-level Chinese classes, received constructional (n = 33) or form-focused instruction (n = 33) for 13 weeks. Results from elicited production and grammaticality judgment tasks implemented preceding and following the instruction showed that the constructional instruction group had improvements to a greater extent than the form-focused instruction group. These findings underscore the validity of the construction-grammar approach as an effective teaching method in foreign language learning settings.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Consolidating EFL content and vocabulary learning via interactive reading
- Understanding salient trajectories and emerging profiles in the development of Chinese learners’ motivation: a growth mixture modeling approach
- Multilingual pedagogies in first versus foreign language contexts: a cross-country study of language teachers
- Classroom assessment and learning motivation: insights from secondary school EFL classrooms
- Interculturality and Islam in Indonesia’s high-school EFL classrooms
- Collaborative writing in an EFL secondary setting: the role of task complexity
- Spanish heritage speakers’ processing of lexical stress
- Effectiveness of second language collocation instruction: a meta-analysis
- Understanding the Usefulness of E-Portfolios: Linking Artefacts, Reflection, and Validation
- Syntactic prediction in L2 learners: evidence from English disjunction processing
- The cognitive construction-grammar approach to teaching the Chinese Ba construction in a foreign language classroom
- The predictive roles of enjoyment, anxiety, willingness to communicate on students’ performance in English public speaking classes
- Speaking proficiency development in EFL classrooms: measuring the differential effect of TBLT and PPP teaching approaches
- L2 textbook input and L2 written production: a case of Korean locative postposition–verb construction
- What does the processing of chunks by learners of Chinese tell us? An acceptability judgment investigation
- Comparative analysis of written corrective feedback strategies: a linear growth modeling approach
- Enjoyment in language teaching: a study into EFL teachers’ subjectivities
- Students’ attitude and motivation towards concept mapping-based prewriting strategies
- Pronunciation pedagogy in English as a foreign language teacher education programs in Vietnam
- The role of language aptitude probed within extensive instruction experience: morphosyntactic knowledge of advanced users of L2 English
- The impact of different glossing conditions on the learning of EFL single words and collocations in reading
- Patterns of motivational beliefs among high-, medium-, and low-achieving English learners in China
- The effect of linguistic choices in note-taking on academic listening performance: a pedagogical translanguaging perspective
- A latent profile analysis of Chinese EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety in reading and writing: associations with imaginative capacity and story continuation writing performance
- Effects of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on L2 vocabulary acquisition
- Task complexity, task repetition, and L2 writing complexity: exploring interactions in the TBLT domain
- Expansion of verb-argument construction repertoires in L2 English writing
- Immediate versus delayed prompts, field dependence and independence cognitive style and L2 development
- Aural vocabulary, orthographic vocabulary, and listening comprehension
- The use of metadiscourse by secondary-level Chinese learners of English in examination scripts: insights from a corpus-based study
- Scoping review of research methodologies across language studies with deaf and hard-of-hearing multilingual learners
- Exploring immediate and prolonged effects of collaborative writing on young learners’ texts: L2 versus FL
- Discrepancy in prosodic disambiguation strategies between Chinese EFL learners and native English speakers
- Exploring the state of research on motivation in second language learning: a review and a reliability generalization meta-analysis
- Japanese complaint responses in textbook dialogues and ordinary conversations: learning objects to expand interactional repertoires