Applied Linguistics
Answer social problems involving language, such as
How to teach language better
Individual differences in language learning
Social influences affecting language learning
How to write a language examination
Is interdisciplinary, drawing in multitude of disciplines including
Sociology
Pedagogy
Psychology
Theoretical linguistics
Is not limited to language teaching
Includes a broad range of fields, including, but not limited to
Speech pathology
Translation
Stylistics
Language policy
Lexicography
Performed a mediating function between
Theory
Practice
Is "Problem-Based"
Brings linguistic insight and analysis to
Practical issues of language use
According to
Brumfit
Grabe
Schmitt and Celce-Murcia
Davis and Elder
AL is the theoretical and empirical investigation of real world problems which language is the central issue
The focus of AL is on trying to solve real world language based problems
AL Uses what we know about language,
how it's learned and how it's used in order to achieve a purpose or solve a real world problem.
A coherent activity which theorizes through speculative and empirical investigations real world problems where language is the central issue
The term owes its origin to US language-teaching programs during and after the second world war
Some of its common Subfields are
Second Language Acquisition
Language Assessment and Testing
Language Policy and Planning
Lexicography
Multilingualism
Corpus Linguistics
Is a branch of linguistics
Is concerned with practical applications of language studies
has a particular emphasis on the communicative function of the language
its history can be discussed in different countries
In America (1948) at a conference organized
by Charles Cries, a quarterly journal of AL was started
In Britain, a school of AL was established by J.C. Cartford at the University of Edinburgh in 1956 and the center for AL was set up in Washington, DC, under Charles Ferguson in 1959
In 1964, national associations of AL came together to form the Association International de la Linguistique Appliquée (AILA)
They hold a four yearly international congress with published proceedings
Australian AL according to McNamara (2991) made AL of modern languages its target of immigrants rather than English
The application of linguistics to the development of teaching materials and writing system for aboriginal languages was also focused on
According to Angelis, until the 1990s, there was a lot of language activities without much reference to linguistics.
It was until much later that scholars saw the need to link all
those activities to linguistics in terms of their applications
There's a difference between
Linguistics Applied and Applied Linguistics
in LA, language problems are amenable to linguistics solutions.
in AL, the intervention is a matter of mediation, and the AL has to relate and reconcile different representations of reality, including linguistics, without excluding others.
Ricardo Alejandro Salinas Moya
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Lingüística Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras
Mtro. Dan Isai Serrato Salazar
8/15/2021