The program and the book of abstracts can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
The program has been updated on February 25.
If any changes are needed, contact Anna Endresen at anna.endresen@uit.no
| 09:00-09:40 |
Registration (in the hall near B-1005) |
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| 09:40-10:00 |
Conference opening (room B-1005) Welcome speech by Tim van Gerven, Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education (HSL, UiT) Practical organisational remarks from the organizers |
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| 10:00-11:00 |
Plenary lecture (room B-1005) Thomas Herbst NOT ONLY CONSTRUCTIONS ALL THE WAY DOWN BUT ALSO LEXICAL ITEMS ALL THE WAY (IN)TO Chair: Tore Nesset |
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break (second floor outside room B-1005) |
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Panel A1 (room B-1005) Pedagogical adaptations of ConstructiCons Chair: Anna Endresen |
Panel B1 (room E-0101): Constructions Chair: Laura A. Janda |
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| 11:30-12:00 | Building up the CASA - A Methodological Foundation to the Constructional Approach. Rodrigo Garcia Rosa |
Citations as constructions: finding ways to teach novice academic writers the concept of a source. Marri-Mariska Tammepõld, Ilona Tragel | |
| 12:00-12:30 | From Svenskt konstruktikon to Svenska språkmönster. On pedagogical adaptation of a multipurpose database. Benjamin Lyngfelt, Julia Prentice | From syntax to morphology: morphological constructions in the classroom. Anastasia Makarova | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Bazinga | ||
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Panel A2 (room B-1005): ConstructiCons Chair: Laura A. Janda |
Panel B2 (room E-0101): How to present constructions to beginner learners Chair: Yuliia Palii |
Panel C2 (room E-0104): Novel digital resources and constructionist approaches to vocabulary Chair: Anastasia Makarova |
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| 13:30-14:00 | Norwegian “normlessness” as a challenge for constructicography: How to build a constructiCon for a language without a single norm? Olaf Mikkelsen, Anna Endresen, Paulina Horbowicz, Jakub Przytuła, Julia Jaworska, Andrea Romanzi | Complexity vs. communication: teaching constructions at the beginner’s level. Tore Nesset, Svetlana Sokolova |
Grammatical Profiles as Pedagogical Tools: Constructional Insights from GramatiKat. Dominika Kováříková |
| 14:00-14:30 | Norske språkmønstre – A Constructicon and Resource Bank for Teaching Activities in Norwegian. Snorre Karkkonen Svensson, Alise Birnbauma, Namejs Kugrēns, Live Christine Brandal Tjervåg | A hybrid usage-based model for L2 pedagogy of Spanish prepositional constructions. Estefania Tamayo Pineda |
Building a constructicon from the ground up. Steven Clancy |
| 14:30-15:00 | Where do we start? Methodological challenges in populating the Italian Constructicon from an acquisition-oriented perspective. Francesca Masini, Beatrice Bernasconi, Claudia Borghetti | How to teach Finnish word order: argument structure meets information structure. Jaakko Leino | Exploring the Thinking-for-Speaking Mechanism Underlying Russian Motion Verbs for Improved L2 Teaching: Towards an Approach Based on Paraphrasing Synonymous Constructions. Maria Bondarenko |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Coffee break (the hall outside Auditorium 2) |
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| 15:30-16:30 |
Plenary lecture: Auditorium 2 (1.836) Teorifagbygget hus 1 Margunn Rauset Phraseological variation in Norwegian: Lexicographic and normative perspectives Chair: Olaf Mikkelsen |
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| 16:30-17:15 |
Reception (tapas, drinks) in the hall outside Auditorium 2 |
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| 09:00-10:00 |
Plenary lecture (room B-1005) Hans Boas Towards an Empirical Pedagogical Construction Grammar: Observations, Insights, and Challenges Chair: Laura A. Janda |
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| 10:00-10:05 | Picture time (in the same room B-1005) | ||
| 10:00-10:30 |
Coffee break (second floor outside room B-1005) |
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Panel A3 (B-1005): Data-driven learning of constructions (talks 1 and 2). Mental ConstructiCon (talk 3) Chair: Laura A. Janda |
Panel B3 (E-0101): Teaching materials for beginners and advanced learners Chair: Svetlana Sokolova |
Panel C3 (E-0104): Pragmatics and crosslinguistic studies Chair: Olaf Mikkelsen |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
The German caused motion and resultative constructions: pedagogical challenges and construction-based teaching methodology based on data-driven learning. Sabine De Knop |
FFraming and Constructing Swedish: AI in Pedagogical Lexicography. Utpal Pandey, Bradley Barr | What Can Be Given? Divergent Semantic Patterns in Give-Ditransitive Constructions Across EFL, ESL, and Native Speakers. Kanako Cho |
| 11:00-11:30 | Learning grammar through constructions: A case study in Albanian learners of German. Ema Kristo |
From The New York Times to The Economist: Analyzing Didactic Support in Teaching Phraseme Constructions in B2 English Reading Sections. Eriada Çela |
The pragmatics of Scandinavian prefield: Towards a construction-based pedagogy in L2 writing instruction. Paulina Horbowicz, Natalia Kołaczek |
| 11:30-12:00 | Bridging theories of multilingualism and teaching practice: Didactic guidelines for diasystematic CxG-based FLT/FLL. Sabrina Goll, Lisa Tulaja | Making constructions stick: insights from textbook development for advanced L2 Russian classes. Elmira Zhamaletdinova, Valentina Zhukova, Liya Zalaltdinova, Dmitrii Pastushenkov | Exploring Dutch and French constructions through corpus-based pedagogy. The case of 'een schat van een kind' (lit. ‘a treasure of a child’). Kristel Van Goethem, Isa Hendrikx, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch at Árdna (The Sámi Cultural Pavilion on the UiT campus near the Labyrinth) | ||
| 13:00-14:00 | Guided Art Walk on Tromsø Campus (Kunstvandring) with Hege Olaussen | ||
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Panel A4 (B-1005): ConstructiCons Chair: Valentina Zhukova |
Panel B4 (E-0101): Exploring constructions Chair: Tore Nesset |
Panel C4 (E-0104): Classroom intervention experiments for young learners Chair: Yulia Rodina |
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| 14:00-14:30 | Methods for Pedagogical Constructicography: Using LLMs to Identify the CEFR Level of Constructions, Construction–Collexeme Pairings, and Collocations on the basis of CEFR-Graded L2 Textbook and Learner Corpora. Jelena Kallas, Heete Sahkai, Geda Paulsen, Ene Vainik, Kertu Saul, Raili Pool, Ahto Kiil | Targeting constructions from the perspective of vocabulary: emotions and grammatical case in Czech. Laura A. Janda, Dominika Kováříková | Teaching German verb inflections implicitly with skewed constructional input. Jouni Rostila, Marjo Dillström |
| 14:30-15:00 | One Step Closer to a Mandarin Constructicon: A Data-Driven Bottom-Up Approach Using the BuildC Algorithm and Network Analysis. Hung-Kuan Su | Pragmaticalization in microsyntax: the case of kak-to tak. Valentina Apresyan | Teaching German Idioms through Construction Grammar: An Empirical Study with Adolescent Learners. Bin Zhang, Xiaowen Feng |
| 15:00-15:30 | Teaching pragmatics through constructions: discourse uses of Russian indefinite pronouns. Svetlana Sokolova, Anastasia Makarova | Figurative constructions and young EFL learners: When, what and how. Jelena Parizoska | |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee break (in the hall outside Auditorium 2) |
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| 16:00-17:00 |
“Constructions in Language Pedagogy: Insights and Outlooks.” Discussants: Thomas Herbst, Hans Boas, Margunn Rauset, Olesya Kisselev, Sabine De Knop, Benjamin Lyngfelt (Auditorium 2 (1.836) Teorifagbygget hus 1) |
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| 18:00-20:00 |
Conference dinner The dinner will take place in Tromsø downtown at the Thon Hotel Polar (entrance from the reception) - Grønnegata 45, 9008 |
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07:00-08:00 |
Arctic Experience: Morning swim at the local Spa Swimming & Sauna Centre “Tromsøbadet” (The conference fee does not cover the trip to Tromsøbadet. Tickets must be purchased individually at the ticket counter - 250 NOK per person) |
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| 09:00-09:45 |
TROLLing data repository workshop (room Е-0101) |
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| 09:45-10:00 |
Coffee break (outside room Е-0101) |
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Panel A5 (B-1005): Teaching through constructions Chair: Tore Nesset |
Panel B5 (E-0101): Phraseme Constructions Chair: Laura A. Janda |
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| 10:00-10:30 | From THINK THAT to THINK Ø: Diachronic Insights, Pedagogical Applications, and AI-Assisted Experimentation. Vassiliki Geka, Anna Piata | Slavic intercomprehension of phraseme constructions. Radovan Milović, Irina Stenger, Tania Avgustinova |
| 10:30-11:00 | Building Ukrainian through Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Teaching Ukrainian as a Foreign Language. Nataliia Sorokina | Lost in construction. Constructional idioms in EFL and the CEFR Framework. Biljana Radić-Bojanić, Pedro Ivorra Ordines, Çiler Hatipoğlu |
| 11:00-11:10 | Short break | |
| 11:10-12:10 |
Plenary lecture (room B-1005) Olesya Kisselev Chair: Svetlana Sokolova |
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| 12:10-12:30 |
Closing of the conference (room B-1005) |
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| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch Please note that this lunch is not covered by the conference, and participants are welcome to purchase their meal at one of the university's cafeterias. |
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| 13:30-15:30 |
Trip to the mountain Fløya (by bus & Cable Car) The cost of this trip is covered for those who have registered for this trip. |
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