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APPLIED LINGUISTICS (VIDEO: What applied linguistics is and does - BAAL…
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
VIDEO: What applied linguistics is and does - BAAL
Applied linguistics is not only about teaching English.
It examines contexts other than language teaching and learning.
Applied linguistics has as strong characteristic the interdisciplinarity.
It's about how people use language in various contexts.
"
The theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language is a central issue.
" - Christopher Brahm Fateh
The problem with that definition is that AL is not only used when there is a
problem
, but in every situation in which people are using language in particular ways.
so, in fact, AL is the
"exploration of real-world situations, contexts and sometimes issues in which language plays a crucial role"
VIDEO: An Overview of Applied Linguistics
"the engineering of linguistics"
understanding the use of English (or any other language) in different places.
LA and its multiple uses
Language technology
how machines can respond to the human language
computer - assisted language learning
second language acquisition
how languages are learned
how can we achieve fluency?
educational linguistics
how language work in education
critical discourse analysis
texts as discourses
language policy
situated language practices
how do we use language in different environments
rhetoric
how
should
people use language according to the environment
therminology
translation