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

本研究通过以重复为基础的教学活动，对英语作为第二语言的语法结构的习得进行了研究，并在教学干预前后进行了语法启动任务的测量。在项目的第一年，我们调查了双及物构式和致使移动构式中动词的语料库，为任务前和任务后的创设做准备。我们还利用这项研究来开发教学治疗方法。在项目的第二年，我们选择了Inquiite 6作为软件工具来创建用于治疗和测试的材料，并设计了用于研究的前测、后测和治疗任务。选择这一点是为了使任务和治疗能够在网上进行，这样就可以克服由于新冠肺炎大流行而导致的与参与者接触的问题。

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.