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    Four areas:

    Second language acquisitionProficiency language testing

    The teaching of languages forspecific purposes

    Curriculum design

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    The statutes of the international

    Association of Applied LinguisticsAILA says between other things

    that Applied linguistics has the

    law:

    Language learning

    Language teaching

    Language use and planning

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    Cook and Kasper(2005;479) caution They said that

    applied linguists is not a theory to everything.

    Works are connected with language teaching

    Aplied linguistics and language learning/language

    teaching

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    Even when they teach, men learn

    (Seneca, Epistula Morales, 718)

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    From the forties on, people looked

    to linguistics to revolutioniselanguage teaching: language

    classrooms would be labs with

    scientific data and results; the

    emphasis would be on speaking,

    speaking like natives and learninglike native speakers do.

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    In the late 1950s, Noam

    Chomsky argued that childrenacquire language more or less

    automatically by the time theyare five and whatever makes ithappen cant be duplicated by

    adults it has nothing to dowith situation.

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    Chomskys insight did

    language teachers absolutelyno good: they couldnt

    duplicate genetic processes,and they couldnt hope toreproduce childhood as amodel for second-languagelearning.

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    Language teaching is badly paid,

    little recognised, and muchmaligned. It is left up to nativespeakers for whom it is stupidly

    thought to be natural, thereforetoo easy to be of much value. PhDs

    want to move on from languageteaching to the teaching ofliterature, and theories of literature

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    It is not primarily a form of social

    work with immediate access toindividuals in the happenstance of

    their ongoing socialcommunication, although its

    findings may of course be helpful

    to counsellors and teachers faced

    with these particular problems.

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    Proceeding eclectically is

    legitimate because for theapplied linguist language

    problems involve more thanlanguage. They involve (some

    or all of ) these factors :

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    the educational (including thepsychometric or measurement)

    the social (and its interface withthe linguistic, the sociolinguistic)

    the psychological (and itsinterface, the psycho-linguistic)

    the anthropological (for insights

    on cultural matters)

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    the political

    the religious the economic

    the business the planning and policy

    aspect and, of course, the linguistic,including the phonetic


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