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===Innovation in online language learning===

'''Grammar Explorer''' aims to seriously use a constructivist approach for developing web-based language learning material. It will, therefore, fill the gap created, on the one hand, throughby the influence of the neurosciences on language teaching methodology, and on the other hand, through the persistent adherence of all previously and currently published grammars to outdated concepts. There is no model for such a grammar.

==The structure of the grammar==

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Grammar Explorer is arranged in a modular way. The modules are arranged in alphabetical order rather than according to the structure of the grammar. In this respect Grammar Explorer is more like a dictionary. This is a clear indication that Grammar Explorer has adopted what the [[neurosciences]] have argued for some time, that our memory tends to store semantically, especially at the level of the Basic User.

Furthermore, the neurosciences clearly support [[Michael Lewis (applied linguistic)|Michael Lewis]]'s [[didactic]] approach to language acquisition/learning that has been in circulation for about two decades now: Language must be seen as 'grammaticalized lexis'. A learner must have sufficient semantic data at hand in order to be able to construct meaning. At firstInitially, this is exclusively semantic meaning, which is then transferred into higher level thinking once sufficient semantic data is available to enable the learner to infer the underlying structures. Learners move progressively from semantic meaning intoto more abstract syntactic and morphological meaning.

==References==