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Applied Linguistics LANE 423/ First Semester Introduction/ Lecture 1

Applied Linguistics LANE 423/ First Semester Introduction/ Lecture 1. DR. Amira Kashgary 1433/ 2012. Objectives. Develop an awareness of the various sub-disciplines within the field of Applied Linguistics Gain a broadly-based understanding of first and second language acquisition

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Applied Linguistics LANE 423/ First Semester Introduction/ Lecture 1

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  1. Applied Linguistics LANE 423/ First Semester Introduction/ Lecture 1 DR. AmiraKashgary 1433/ 2012

  2. Objectives • Develop an awareness of the various sub-disciplines within the field of Applied Linguistics • Gain a broadly-based understanding of first and second language acquisition • Understand how people learn- or fail to learn- a second language • Understand the theoretical foundations of language teaching & learning • Differentiate between the various models, theories and research findings within the field of SLA

  3. Required Textbooks • Lightbown, P. & Spada, N. (2006). How languages are learned. Oxford: Oxford University Press • Schmitt, N. (2002). An introduction to applied linguistics. London: Arnold.74

  4. Topics to be covered • Language learning in early childhood • First language acquisition (FLA) • Second language acquisition (SLA) • Styles and strategies in SLA • Cross-linguistics influence and learner language • Theories of second language acquisition

  5. An Overview of Applied Linguistics • Schmitt and Celce-Murcia • Chapter 1 (p 1-7)

  6. What is Applied Linguistics?

  7. What is Applied Linguistics?

  8. What is Applied Linguistics?

  9. What is linguistics?

  10. What is Language?

  11. Features of Language?

  12. What is Clinical Linguistics? • It is a sub-discipline of linguistics and involves the application of linguistic theory to the field of Speech-Language Pathology. • The central focus of Clinical Linguistics is the application of the principles and methods of linguistics and phonetics to communication impairment (weakness) in children and adults.

  13. What is Clinical Linguistics? • Clinical linguistics plays a key role in the description, analysis and remediation of communication impairment. The study of linguistic aspects of communication development and disorder is also of relevance to linguistic theory and our understanding of language more generally.

  14. Major areas in communication impairment  1- Autism.   2- Cleft palate.   3- Developmental speech and language disorders.   4- Traumatic brain injury.   5- Williams syndrome.

  15. What is educational linguistics? • It is an area of study that integrates the research tools of linguistics and other related disciplines of the social sciences in order to investigate the broad range of issues related to language and education with the aim of presenting advice in these fields. • As an area of inquiry, educational linguistics is young. It started in the early 1970s with the work of Bernard Spolsky. The history of educational linguistics is linked to applied linguistics, with which it continues to have a symbiotic relationship.

  16. Questions on “An overview of Applied Linguistics” • What is AL? • What are the sub-disciplines of AL? • Is AL and language teaching the same activity? • What are the major developments of AL?

  17. Questions on “An overview of Applied Linguistics” • What are the major development of AL in the 20th C.? • Early Grammar Translation Method • what are the features of this method? • What are the weaknesses of this method?

  18. Questions on “An overview of Applied Linguistics” • What are the major development of AL in the 20th C.? • The Direct Method • what are the features of this method? exposure to oral lang, listening and speaking, no translation into L1, imitating L1 acquisition 2. What are the weaknesses of this method? Neglecting differences between L1 and L2 acquisition

  19. Questions on “An overview of Applied Linguistics” • What are the major development of AL in the 20th C.? The Reading Method • what are the features of this method? exposure to language through reading to prompt reading skills. 2. What are the weaknesses of this method?

  20. Questions on “An overview of Applied Linguistics” • What are the major development of AL in the 20th C.? After the World War II The Army Method • what are the features of this method? training soldiers in aural-oral skills. lang is a result of habit formation “behaviorism” intensive oral drilling, sentence patterns and memorization 2. How did this method develop after the war? ”Audiolingualism”

  21. Questions on “An overview of Applied Linguistics” • How did Chomsky (1959) contribute to the theory of language learning? “universal grammar” & “underlying principles of language” 2. How did Hymes (1972) contribute to the theory of language learning? “the concept of communicative competence”

  22. Questions on “An overview of Applied Linguistics” • How did Haliday (1973)contribute to the theory of language learning? “systemic functional grammar” language is not exclusively internal to a learner but a means of functioning in society • Three types of language function: ideational, interpersonal, and textual • Emphasizing the communicative and dynamic nature of language “Communicative Language Pedagogy”

  23. Questions on “An overview of Applied Linguistics” • What is Krashen’s 1980 “Monitor Theory”? • L2 is mainly unconsciously acquired through exposure to comprehensible input rather than explicit exercises • It requires to focus on meaning rather than form • Learner’s emotional state can affect acquisition.

  24. Questions on “An overview of Applied Linguistics” • What is Communicative Language Teaching? Littlewood 1981 (CLT) the use of language for meaningful communication focus on learner’s message and fluency rather than grammatical accuracy use problem-solving activities

  25. Questions on “An overview of Applied Linguistics” • What is Communicative Language Teaching? (CLT) • focus on learner’s message and fluency not grammatical accuracy • taught through problem-solving activities and tasks which require students to transact information • students are taught non-language related subjects such as history and politics in the L2

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