| Eli Hinkel's presentation in the ALIS
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In construction grammar, the main unit is the grammatical construction, and not incremental syntactic elements that require rules to combine them into phrases and sentences. Construction grammar in language teaching and learning presents a whole unit approach to conventionalized form-meaning pairing. That is, the grammar of English is made up of various construction sets, e.g. phrasal verbs, prepositional phrases, and collocations, which can be taught and learned as pre-fabricated expressions. The greatest benefit of construction grammar is that it allows language teachers to work with more efficient pathways in practical language teaching. For language learners, a tremendous advantage in construction grammar lies in expedited and reduced work load, when, for example, high-frequency collocations, phrases, and expressions can be learned as whole units, instead of just their elements that have to be further assembled in language production.
The following overheads and handout files are in Microsoft Word 2003 format.