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Applied Linguistics to Foreign

Language Teaching and Learning

Main issues of this unit

 What is linguistics?

 What is the relation between linguistics and

applied linguistics? How do they differ?

What is applied linguistics?

When did applied linguistics develop as an

independent area of study?

 What are the main areas of concern of

applied linguistics?

What will this course focus on? How is this

course organised?

What is Linguistics? (2/2)



Linguistics deals with the study

of particular languages, and the

search for general properties

common to all languages or

large groups of languages.

Some questions linguistics

tries to answer.

 (^) What distinguishes human language from other animal communication systems?  (^) What features are common to all human languages?  (^) How are the modes of linguistic communication (speech, writing, sign language of the deaf) related to each other?

Branches of linguistics

LINGUIS TICS Pragma tics Phonolo gy Phonetic s Morpho logy Syntax Semanti cs

What is Interdisciplinary

Linguistics?

Interdisciplinary studies involve two or more academic disciplines which are considered distinct. The most common interdisciplinary branches of Linguistics are:

 Historical

Linguistics,

 Sociolinguistics,

 Psycholinguistics,

 Ethnolinguistics or

Anthropological

Linguistics,

 Computational

Linguistics,

 Neurolinguistics.

Applied Linguistics:

When did it all begin?

 (^) The British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) was formally established in 1967, with the following aims: “the advancement of education by fostering and promoting, by any lawful charitable means, the study of language use, language acquisition and language teaching and the fostering of inter- disciplinary collaboration in this study” (BAAL, 1994).  (^) It was largely taken for granted in the 1960s and 1970s that applied linguistics was about language teaching.

What is Applied

Linguistics?

 (^) Applied Linguistics entails using what we know about language, about how it is used, and about how it is learned in order to solve some problem in the real world.  (^) Applied Linguistics uses language-related research in a wide variety of fields (e.g. language acquisition, language teaching, literacy, gender studies, language policy, speech therapy, discourse analysis, censorship, workplace communication, media studies, translation, lexicography, forensic linguistics).

What is Applied

Linguistics?

“Applied Linguistics is using what we know about (a) language, (b) how it is learned, and (c) how it is used, in order to achieve some purpose or solve some problem in the real world” (Schmitt & Celce-Murcia, 2002, p. 1).

Defining characteristics of

Applied Linguistics

 (^) Autonomous, multidisciplinary and problem solving : uses and draws on theory from other related fields concerned with language and generates its own theory in order to find solutions to language related problems and issues in the real world.  (^) Practical concerns have an important role in shaping the questions that AL will address.  (^) Language related problems concern learners, teachers, academics, lawyers, translators, test takers, service providers, etc.

A sample of questions Applied Linguistics addresses  (^) How can we determine the literacy levels of a population?  (^) What advice can we give the ministry of education on proposals to introduce a new teaching method?  (^) What advice can we give a defence lawyer on the authenticity of a police transcript of an interview with a suspect?

What is the relationship

between AL and language

related disciplines?

 (^) Applied linguistics occupies an intermediary, mediating position between language related disciplines (linguistics, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics) and professional practice  (^) It uses theories/principles from language related disciplines in order to understand language related issues and to solve language related problems. The choice of which disciplines are involved in applied linguistics matters depends on the circumstances.