Learners can be asked to extend the use of new lexical units as slot-fillers into constructional patterns. To be proficient in a foreign language also means to use new words in constructions. With the postulate of meaningful schematic templates, Construction Grammar (CxG) has a number of assets for foreign language teaching (FLT) and learning (FLL), it allows among others to establish a structured inventory of abstract constructions with prototypical exemplars and inheritance links between the constructions’ instantiations. Teaching materials often propose a lexical approach with an unstructured set of constructed examples. Difficulties in the learning process of a foreign language result from the conceptual and constructional differences between expressions in the native and foreign language. In recent years, foreign language pedagogy has recognized the need to focus (i) on larger meaningful sequences of words ( Nattinger & DeCarrico, 1992 Wray, 2002 Ellis & Cadierno, 2009 Gonzalez Rey, 2013 ) and (ii) further on communicative goals ( Nunan, 1991 Widdowson, 1992 Savignon, 2000 ).

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