Chapter 1

Applied Linguistics

The need for applied linguistics

Examples and procedures

The scope of applied linguistics

Linguistics and applied linguistics: a difficult relationship

Language

Family

Love

Politics

Sports

Education

Business

Language at the heart of human life◦ Many activities will be inconceivable

◦ Human relations and interaction

◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75XxjJYuV7I

Children education ◦ Reading and writing

Should be encourage learning of the standard and by whom?

Should learn sign language or a combination?

Should everyone learn foreign languages?◦ Best way to learn and teach

Modern or classic

Country or international

Change ◦ Prevention or evolution

Texting

Dying languages◦ Prevention

Final word from Cromarty: Scottish Black Isle dialect silenced forever as last native speaker dies aged 92

Lingua franca (English international language)◦ A language used for communication between

people speaking a variety of languages

◦ Welcomed or deplored

Learning of other Languages◦ Translations Accurate or good enough (tech)

Relation of knowledge about language to decision making in the real world◦ Commerce

◦ Cultural exchange

◦ Educational

◦ Social problems

What language should be offered?◦ The world’s largest first language

Chinese

◦ The most widely distributed

Spanish

What teaching method will you use?◦ Learning to write

◦ Learning to speak

Process of

study

Reflection

InvestigationAction

Repeat

Language is implicated in so much of our daily lives.

We need to classify the kinds of problem we are concerned and map out the scope of our area.

Areas of study:◦ Language & Education

◦ Language, Work & Law

◦ Language, Information & Effect

Language

&

Education

1st

language

education

Additional

language

education

Clinical

linguistic

Language

test (one

or both)

Language, work & law

Workplace Communicati

onLanguage Planning

Forensics Linguistics

Language, information & effect:◦ This area includes:

Literary Stylistics

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

Translation and interpretation

Information design

Lexicography

All these fall within the definition of applied linguistics.

Yet in practice some are more independent than others.

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CooCurrent. (2009 October, 9). Part 1 Why do we talk? BBC Horizon. Retrieved April 7, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75XxjJYuV7I