Numeral schemas within cognitive framework: Their usage-based establishment and degrees of entrenchment
Numeral schemas within cognitive framework: Their usage-based establishment and degrees of entrenchment

Summary/Abstract: The usage-based linguistic approaches would claim that most focus of L2 learning should be, like it is in L1 acquisition, on the effective provision for pairing the L2 form and the L2 content into idiosyncratic constructions, and further on to overarching frames. Instead of trying a transfer from L1 to L2 content, all commitment and attention should be onto providing for this content and form, organizing, elaborating and practicing both in their own L2 space.1 The paper presents an analytical comparison of three planes: the provision for the establishment of numeral structures, the complex framework of the tests to evaluate entrenchment levels, and the manifestation of the linguistic behavior of the different language and level groups, as well as individual students. The testing has been informed by the above approach and has been organized have provided several filters, targeting the linguistic behavior of my group (as subject group) and some comparable groups. The testing filters have provided some reliable observations regarding the relationship input-performance, trying some more insight into the function between the range of components of the performance testing filters and the range of the features manifested by the various groups, including differences within the group.

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