NEW BLOG POST! Declarative vs. procedural memory in language learning: What every learner & teacher should know Continue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

new interview with Adele Goldberg on the constructionist approach to understanding how language works recommended listening for all language learners (skip to 47min mark) www.patreon.com/posts/121-le...

Thanks for the opportunity, Because Language! 👇

here’s what every language learner should know about memory: we have two main memory systems. • declarative memory stores facts—like the capital of France, or where you parked the car. • procedural memory stores patterns—like how to ride a bike or brush your teeth. a thread:

This is fascinating and intuitively resonant. 👇🏽

the problem with grammar study is that the brain does not construct sentences using textbook grammar rules—language exists in our heads as networks of associations between 'chunks', and the patterns documented in textbooks emerge from those associations 🧵 here's what I mean:

the next big problem in language learning, and potentially the last problem is Algorithmically Optimised Input a thread:

the next big problem in language learning, and potentially the last problem is Algorithmically Optimised Input a thread:

@adelegoldberg.bsky.social i tried to summarise the core ideas of Construction Grammar and mentioned your work in this video i'm not a trained linguist so i'm sure there are inaccuracies, feedback is very welcome! youtu.be/u_qGcp3XpAs?...

thank you to whoever was my first subscriber was!

in the 50yrs since Krashen's research on lang. acquisition, a lot has happened in the field of linguistics in my first youtube video, i talk about a new theory of how language is represented in the brain, and why we now know how comprehensible input works. link in replies: