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.
Registration
Registration to PAC 2025 is available until May 12th 2025 via this form.
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: why should we pay more attention to constructions in texts
Andre Coneglian (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
14:10-14:40 - Language Learning in and with the German FrameNet-Constructicon
Nina Böbel & Alexander Ziem (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf)
14:40-15:10 - Fika
15:10-15:40 - The Norwegian Dream: a ConstructiCon representing two written varieties with flexible norms
Olaf Mikkelsen & Anna Endresen (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 - Teaching Constructions with the German Frame-Semantic Online Lexicon (G-FOL) (online)
Maggie Gemmel-Hudson (University of Texas Austin)
18:00 - Dinner
Thursday, May 15th, morning session
09:00-09:30 - CASA
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 - Kickstarting the Italian Constructicon: from idea to implementation through data structuring
Ludovica Pannitto & Francesca Masini (University of Bologna)
11:30-12:00 - Slots and fillers illustrated
Bálint Sass (Hungarian Research Center for Linguistics)
12:00-12:30 - Towards a Slovak constructicon: Some preliminary considerations
Jakob Horsch (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
12:30-14:00 - Lunch Break (Näckrosen Restaurant)
Thursday, May 15th, afternoon session
14:00-14:30 - The Tromsø Constructicon Lab: New Constructicon Resources for Research and Pedagogy
Laura Janda, Anna Endresen and Valentina Zhukova (The Arctic University of Norway)
14:30-15:00 - Meanings of encoding idioms in Japanese: Challenges for Construction Grammarians, Frame Semanticists and L2 Learners
Kyoko Ohara (Keio University)
15:00-15:30 - The Swedish ConstructiCon as a resource for language pedagogy
Benjamin Lyngfelt & Julia Prentice
15:30-16:00 - Fika
16:00 - 17:00 - General discussion
Workshop Venue
University of Gothenburg
Campus Lorensberg
Renströmsgatan 6
Gothenburg
Organizing Committee
Benjamin Lyngfelt
Swedish Constructicon
Gothenburg University
Tiago Timponi Torrent
FrameNet Brasil
Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Lars Borin
Språkbanken
Gothenburg University
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).