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Cognitive grammar is the grammar-oriented branch of a general language theory called cognitive linguistics, which started to develop in the 1980s in the USA and some years later also conquered other parts of the world (mainly Europe and Asia). The first sub-chapter focuses on the development and the insights of cognitive linguistics and explains the main differences between cognitive linguistics and other more traditional schools of linguistics. In the second sub-chapter, the perspective that cognitive grammar takes on language is introduced and some of its major tenets are briefly analysed, as cognitive grammar cannot be presented in its entirety here1. The third sub-chapter then presents arguments why a cognitive grammatical perspective is a suitable choice for pedagogical applications of grammar, the predominant reason being that it sees grammar as meaningful, and what is meaningful is also explainable. Furthermore, current research focusing on the effectiveness of using this approach in second/foreign language teaching is summarised and briefly explained.