applied linguistics and language
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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