The workshop Pedagogical Application of Constructicography (PAC 2025) is a research meeting on constructicon development. The main theme of the workshop concerns constructicon development for pedagogical purposes, either by constructicons catering directly to language learners or by constructicons designed to support external or semi-external pedagogical application. There will also be a few presentations focusing on other aspects of constructicography.

While the workshop is primarily a meeting for constructicographers, other linguists interested in construction-oriented language pedagogy are also welcome to attend, bearing in mind that basic familiarity with constructicons and constructicography will be presupposed.

The workshop will be hosted at the University of Gothenburg, Campus Lorensberg, located at Renströmsgatan 6 in Gothenburg, on May 14–15, according to the following schedule. This is mainly an in-person workshop, but online participation will be possible and some of the talks will be remote, online presentations. There is no registration fee, but registration is required for online participation. Information on how to access the web conference system will be provided to registered participants before the workshop.

Preliminary Program

Wednesday, May 14th, afternoon session

13:00-13:10 - Introduction: pedagogical application of constructicography

PAC 2025 Organizers

13:10-13:40 - On the possibilities and challenges for using constructicons in the classroom

Tiago Torrent (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, CNPq) & Natália Sigiliano (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, PROFLETRAS)

13:40-14:10 - Form-meaning mappings as theory and method for teaching grammar

Andre Coneglian (Federal University of Minas Gerais)

14:10-14:40 - How to make the German FrameNet Constructicon a pedagogical resource

Nina Böbel & Alexander Ziem (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf)

14:40-15:10 - Fika

15:10-15:40 - Initial experiences from the Norwegian ConstructiCon

Olaf Mikkelsen (The Arctic University of Norway)

15:40-16:10 - Pedagogical possibilities for a Norwegian constructicon

Snorre Karkkonen Svensson (House of Languages, Riga)

16:10-16:40 - G-FOL: Teaching grammar through constructions, a frame-based approach for German (online)

Maggie Gemmel

18:00 - Dinner

Thursday, May 15th, morning session

09:00-09:30 - CASA (online)

Thomas Herbst (FAU Erlangen) & Thomas Hoffmann (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)

09:30-10:00 - Enhancing Construction-Based Pedagogy with a Constructicon: Insights from Chinese Middle School English Teaching (online)

Zhen Tian (Shanghai International Studies University)

10:00-10:30 - Language proficiency levels for constructions

Jelena Kallas (Institute of The Estonian Language), Geda Paulsen (Uppsala University) & Kertu Saul (Institute of The Estonian Language)

10:30-11:00 - Fika

11:00-11:30 - TBA

Ludovica Pannitto & Francesca Masini (University of Bologna)

11:30-12:00 - TBA

Bálint Sass (Hungarian Research Center for Linguistics)

12:00-12:30 - Towards a Slovak constructicon: Some preliminary considerations

Jakob Horsch (Masaryk University, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

12:30-14:00 - Lunch Break (Näckrosen Restaurant)

Thursday, May 15th, afternoon session

14:00-14:30 - The Tromsø Construction Lab: New Constructicon Resources for Research and Pedagogy

Laura Janda (The Arctic University of Norway)

14:30-15:00 - How to teach about conventionalized functions and interactional frames to L2 learners

Kyoko Ohara (Keio University)

15:00-15:30 - TBA

Benjamin Lyngfelt & Julia Prentice

15:30-16:00 - Fika

16:00 - 17:00 - General discussion

Organizing Committee

Benjamin Lyngfelt
Swedish Constructicon
Gothenburg University

Tiago Timponi Torrent
FrameNet Brasil
Federal University of Juiz de Fora

Funding

PAC 2025 is funded through the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) for a research collaboration between Gothenburg University and the Federal University of Juiz de Fora entitled Constructions in contrast: Multilingual Constructicography in the Swedish and Brazilian Constructicons (contract no. BR2014-5860).