Constructionism in language pedagogy: Usage-based approach to foreign/second language learning

7 Usage-Based Language Learning

As a child, you talked with your significant others about things of shared interest using words and phrases that came to mind, and all the while you learned language. We authors of this paper were privy to none of your language experience. Nor did you have access to ours. Yet somehow we have all converged upon a similar enough “English” to be able to communicate here. How so? Quine argued that ...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Applied Linguistic Approach to Language Learning Strategies (A Critical Review)

From applied linguistic point of view, the fundamental question facing the language teachers, methodologists and course designers is which procedure is more effective in FL/SL: learning to use or using to learn? Definitely, in order to be a competent language user, knowledge of language system is necessary, but it is not sufficient to be a successful language user. That is why there was a gradu...

Language Learning Strategies: A Strategy-Based Approach to L2 Learning.Strategic Competence, and Test Validation

A Corpus-Based Approach to Language Learning

One goal of computational linguistics is to discover a method for assigning a rich structural annotation to sentences that are presented as simple linear strings of words; meaning can be much more readily extracted from a structurally annotated sentence than from a sentence with no structural information. Also, structure allows for a more in-depth check of the well-formedness of a sentence. The...