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An Overview of Applied Linguistics

An Overview of Applied 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, to achieve some purpose or solve some problem in the real world. What are those purposes ?. 1 AAAL ---- < 18

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An Overview of Applied Linguistics

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  1. An Overview ofApplied Linguistics

  2. 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, to achieve some purpose or solve some problem in the real world.

  3. What are those purposes ? 1 AAAL ----< 18 2 AILA ----< 47 3 Traditionally: SLA 4 Non-educational areas 5 In cases where language goes wrong

  4. The Development of AL Early History 1. Ancient Greek grammar ----- < rhetoric -- philosophy 2. 2nd half of 18 c. • Samuel Johnson (1755) • Robert Lowth (1762)

  5. 3. 20th c. I. Grammar-translation method - Description - problems II. Direct method - Description - problems III. Reading method - Description IV. Army method = Audiolingualism - Description VI. UG = Chomsky (1959)

  6. V. UG = Chomsky (1959) VI. Communicative competence = Hymes (1972) VII Functional grammar = Halliday (1973) VIII. Needs analysis - functions - notions

  7. XI. Monitor theory = Krashen (1982) comprehensible input

  8. AL Development 20th Century Early History 1- G . T 2- D . M 1- ancient Greek 3-R . M 4- A . M 2- 18th C 5-U . G 6- C . C 7-F . G 8-N . A 9- M. T

  9. Communicative language teaching (CLT) • - advantage • - disadvantage • Language assessment • Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) • Corpus linguistics

  10. Incorporating Social/Cultural and ContextualElements into A The study of mind and mental attributes such as language were part of philosophy Wundt (1977) Split psychology into two strands.

  11. Saussure (1966)

  12. Labov (1970) • Sociolinguistics • Pragmatics • Discourse Analysis • Sociocultural Theory

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