first class applied linguistics ppt

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Applied Linguistics and

Language Teaching

Rogil Sanchez


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Objectives

To familiarize students with linguistics applied totheoretical underpinnings of first language andsecond language acquisition.

To develop students ability to evaluate criticallyt

current theories and leading ideas in secondlanguage acquisition and the teaching of second andforeign languages.

To provide students with the fundamental aspects of

linguistics with an emphasis on the application ofthat knoledge to an understanding of second andforeign language acquisition and the teaching ofsecond and foreign languages.


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What is the Course about?

This course intends to involve studentsin the study and analysis of thetheories of first and second language

acquisition and the relationship withsecond and forteign language learningand teaching in a variety of local

context taking into consideration thecurrent issues of applied linguistics.


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Methodology

This course will be developed in aworkshop fashion.Groups or individualstudents will be assigned a topic to be

read,analysed and defended inclass.Each group or participant mustpresent a written report before the

exposition.The Professor will promotediscussion to then criticize,suggest orgive specific hints or conclusions.


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The Nature of AppliedLinguistics

1.1. - What is Applied Linguistics?

1.2. - History of Applied Linguistics

1.3. - Areas of Applied Linguistics


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First Language Acquisition

2.1.- What is first language acquisition?

2.2.- Stages of first language acquisition

2.3.- Critical Period and First LanguageAcquisition

2.4.- Theories of Language Acquisition


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First Language Acquisition

2.1.- What is first language acquisition?

2.2.- Stages of first language acquisition

2.3.- Critical Period and First LanguageAcquisition

2.4.- Theories of Language Acquisition

2.5.- The Case of Genie:The Wild Child 2.6.- Theories of Language Acquisition


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Second Language Acquisition

3.1.- What is Second Language Acquisition?

3.2.- Stages of Second Language Acquisition

3.3.-Stages of SLA in a Language Program

3.4.- Critical Period and Second Language

Acquisition

3.5.- First Language Acquisition compared to

Second Language Acquisition


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Issues in Applied Linguistics

4.1.- Interlanguage

4.2.- Complementary Theories of SLA.

SELECTED READINGS:

A.1.- The Biological Foundations ofLanguage:Does Empirical Evidence

Support Innateness of Language?A.2.- Nature Vs.Nurture: The Miracle of

Language


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What is Applied Linguistics?

The study of the relationship betweentheory and practice. The main emphasis isusually on language teaching, but can also

be applied to translation, lexicology etc.www.finchpark.com/courses/glossary.htm

The use of linguistic methods in solvingreal world problems, especially problemsof literacy or language learning.http://www.language-archives.org/REC/field-20021127.html
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The branch of linguistics concerned with

practical applications of language studies, with

particular emphasis on the communicative

function of language, and including suchprofessional practices as lexicography,

terminology, general or technical translation,

language teaching (general or specialized

language, mother tongue or second language),writing, interpretation, and computer processing

of language.www.translationbureau.gc.ca/pwgsc_internet/fr/publications/gratuit_free/man_termino/glossaire_e.htm
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1. The study of second and foreign language learningand teaching.

2. The study of language and linguistics in relation topractical linguistic problems,such aslexicography,translation,speechpathology,etc.Applied linguistics uses informationfrom sociology,psychology,anthropology andinformation theory in practical areas such as

syllabus design,speech therapy,languageplanning,stylistics,etc.

Jack Richards:Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics


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The History of AppliedLinguistics

The term 'applied linguistics' refers to a broad range ofactivities which involve solving some language-related problem or addressing some language-related concern. It appears as though applied

linguistics, at least in North America, was firstofficially recognized as an independent course atthe University of Michigan in 1946. In those earlydays, the term was used both in the United Statesand in Great Britain to refer to applying a so-called

'scientific approach' to teaching foreign languages,including English for nonnative speakers.


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Early work to improve the quality of foreign

language teaching by Professors Charles

Fries (University of Michigan) and Robert

Lado (University of Michigan, thenGeorgetown University) helped to bring

definition to the field as did the 1948

publication of a new journal, LanguageLearning: A Quarterly Journal of AppliedLinguistics.


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During the late 1950s and the early 1960s,

the use of the term was gradually

broadened to include what was then

referred to as 'automatic translation'.


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At the close of the 1950s, issues of languagediversity, language policy, and the growingimportance of English worldwide created ademand for access to information about worldlanguages and for expertise in linguistics andlanguage training. In addition, the beginning ofthe space race, with the launch of Sputnik,raised public concern about the ability of

American schools to train students inmathematics, the sciences, and foreignlanguages.


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The History of AppliedLinguistics : Organizations

It was in this environment of increased interest inlanguage issues that the Centre for AppliedLinguistics CAL was founded in 1959 byCharles Ferguson with funding from the Ford

Foundation. CAL's mandate, according to MelFox, then a program officer with the FordFoundation, was to be a "resource base forEnglish as a second language (and tobecome) a national resource for the application

of linguistics and of new methods generally tothe teaching and learning of secondlanguages."
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The History of AppliedLinguistics : Organizations

. Association Internationale de Linguistique

Applique-AILA

.American Association for Applied

Linguistics (AAAL)

. British Association for Applied Linguistics

(BAAL).
http://www.aaal.org/http://www.aaal.org/http://www.baal.org.uk/http://www.baal.org.uk/http://www.aaal.org/http://www.aaal.org/


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The History of AppliedLinguistics : Journals

Applied Linguistics(Oxford University Press)

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics(Cambridge University Press).

Applied Linguistics Virtual Library.

AILA Vademecum
http://education.nyu.edu/teachlearn/faculty/lselinker/welcome.htmlhttp://education.nyu.edu/teachlearn/faculty/lselinker/welcome.html


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Areas of Applied Linguistics

1.- Language Acquisition

2.- Language Assessment

3.- Discourse Analysis/Functionalgrammar

In this course, we are going to study the processes oflanguage acquisition due to the importance offormulating appropriate language methodologiesfor our local context.


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