Knowledge and acquisition of grammatical constructions in English as a Foreign Language

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This study examines the acquisition of grammatical constructions in English as a second language, through repetition-based pedagogical activities, as measured with a grammatical priming task, administered before and after the pedagogical intervention. In the first year of the project, we investigated corpus data on verbs in the ditransitive construction and the caused motion construction to prepare the creation of the pre-task and post-task. We also use that research to develop the pedagogical treatment. In the second year of the project, we chose Inquisit 6 as a software tool to create the materials for the treatment and tests, and designed the pre-test, post-test, and treatment tasks to be used in the study. This was chosen in order to allow the tasks and treatment to be conducted online, so that problems with access to participants due to the COVID-19 pandemic could be overcome.