TODE Tomoko    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences    Position   Professor
Date	2016/08/27
Presentation Theme	Usage-based construal awareness: The learning of typologically different second language grammar
Conference	EuroSLA 26
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Venue	University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Details	This paper examines effects of raising awareness of how events are construed in the target language on the learning of the English subject–predicate. Fifty-eight Japanese undergraduates met individually with the researcher for three sessions: pretest, treatment, and posttest activities. The results suggest that construal awareness in communicative contexts may facilitate usage-based learning, not sudden abstraction.