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Grammatical meaning and the second language classroom: introduction

Grammatical meaning and the second language classroom: introduction
Grammatical meaning and the second language classroom: introduction
This special issue assembles empirical work on second language teaching and learning from a generative linguistic perspective. The focus is on properties that constitute grammar–meaning interaction, that differ in the native and target language grammars, and that have not been highlighted in the pedagogical literature so far. Common topics address whether and how learners acquire grammatical meanings in the second language, including difficult misalignments between native and target-language constructions and functional morphemes. We propose that teaching and learning a second language can be enhanced by focusing on the relationship between grammatical forms and their meanings, as elucidated by contemporary linguistic theory.
Grammatical knowledge, grammar–meaning interaction, implicit–explicit knowledge interface , generative linguistics, grammar instruction
1362-1688
147-157
Marsden, Heather
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Slabakova, Roumyana
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Marsden, Heather
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Slabakova, Roumyana
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Marsden, Heather and Slabakova, Roumyana (2019) Grammatical meaning and the second language classroom: introduction. Language Teaching Research, 23 (2), 147-157. (doi:10.1177/1362168817752718).

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This special issue assembles empirical work on second language teaching and learning from a generative linguistic perspective. The focus is on properties that constitute grammar–meaning interaction, that differ in the native and target language grammars, and that have not been highlighted in the pedagogical literature so far. Common topics address whether and how learners acquire grammatical meanings in the second language, including difficult misalignments between native and target-language constructions and functional morphemes. We propose that teaching and learning a second language can be enhanced by focusing on the relationship between grammatical forms and their meanings, as elucidated by contemporary linguistic theory.

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Accepted/In Press date: 13 December 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 22 January 2018
Published date: March 2019
Keywords: Grammatical knowledge, grammar–meaning interaction, implicit–explicit knowledge interface , generative linguistics, grammar instruction

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Local EPrints ID: 416500
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/416500
ISSN: 1362-1688
PURE UUID: 5405effa-d45b-4cc9-9264-9aa2720e7af6
ORCID for Roumyana Slabakova: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-460X

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Author: Heather Marsden

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